


DMAKE(1)                                                              DMAKE(1)


NAME
       dmake - maintain program groups, or interdependent files

SYNOPSIS
       dmake     [-P#]     [-{f|C|K}     file]     [-{w|W}     target     ...]
       [macro[[!][*][+][:]]=value       ...]         [-ABcdeEghiknpqrsStTuVxX]
       [-v[cdfimrtw]] [-m[trae]] [target ...]

DESCRIPTION
       dmake  is a re-implementation of the UNIX Make utility with significant
       enhancements.  dmake executes commands found in an external file called
       a  makefile to update one or more target names.  Each target may depend
       on zero or more prerequisite targets.  If any of the target's prerequi-
       sites  is newer than the target or if the target itself does not exist,
       then dmake will attempt to make the target.

       If no -f command line option is present  then  dmake  searches  for  an
       existing makefile from the list of prerequisites specified for the spe-
       cial target .MAKEFILES (see the STARTUP section for more details).   If
       "-"  is  the  name of the file specified to the -f flag then dmake uses
       standard input as the source of the makefile text.

       Any macro definitions (arguments with embedded "=" signs)  that  appear
       on  the  command line are processed first and supercede definitions for
       macros of the same name found within the makefile.  In  general  it  is
       impossible  for  definitions  found  inside  the makefile to redefine a
       macro defined on the command line, see the MACROS  section  for  excep-
       tions.

       If  no  target names are specified on the command line, then dmake uses
       the first non-special target found in the makefile as the default  tar-
       get.   See  the SPECIAL TARGETS section for the list of special targets
       and their function.  Makefiles written for most  previous  versions  of
       Make  will  be  handled  correctly by dmake.  Known differences between
       dmake and other versions of make are  discussed  in  the  COMPATIBILITY
       section  found  at  the  end  of  this document.  dmake returns 0 if no
       errors were detected and a non-zero result if an error occurred.

OPTIONS
       -A     Enable AUGMAKE special inference rule transformations  (see  the
              "PERCENT(%) RULES" and "AUGMAKE META RULES" sections), these are
              set to off by default.

       -B     Enable the use of spaces  instead  of  <tabs>  to  begin  recipe
              lines.  This flag equivalent to the .NOTABS special macro and is
              further described below.

       -c     Use non-standard comment stripping.   If  you  specify  -c  then
              dmake will treat any # character as a start of comment character
              wherever it may appear unless it is escaped by a \.

       -C [+]file
              This option writes to file a copy of standard output  and  stan-
              dard  error  from any child processes and from the dmake process



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              itself.  If you specify a + prior to the file name then the text
              is  appended  to  the previous contents of file.  This option is
              active in the MSDOS implementation only and is ignored  by  non-
              MSDOS versions of dmake.

       -d     Disable  the  use of the directory cache.  Normally dmake caches
              directories as it checks file timestamps.  Giving this  flag  is
              equivalent  to the .DIRCACHE attribute or macro being set to no.

       -E     Read  the  environment  and  define  all  strings  of  the  form
              'ENV-VAR=evalue' defined within as macros whose name is ENV-VAR,
              and whose value is 'evalue'.  The environment is processed prior
              to processing the user specified makefile thereby allowing defi-
              nitions in the makefile to override definitions in the  environ-
              ment.

       -e     Same  as  -E, except that the environment is processed after the
              user specified makefile has been processed (thus definitions  in
              the  environment  override definitions in the makefile).  The -e
              and -E options are mutually exclusive.  If both  are  given  the
              latter takes effect.

       -f file
              Use  file  as  the  source  for  the makefile text.  Only one -f
              option is allowed.

       -g     Globally  disable  group  recipe  parsing,  equivalent  to   the
              .IGNOREGROUP attribute or macro being set to yes at the start of
              the makefile.

       -h     Print the command summary for dmake.

       -i     Tells dmake to ignore errors, and continue making other targets.
              This is equivalent to the .IGNORE attribute or macro.

       -K file
              Turns  on .KEEP_STATE state tracking and tells dmake to use file
              as the state file.

       -k     Causes dmake to ignore errors caused by command execution and to
              make  all  targets  not  depending  on targets that could not be
              made.  Ordinarily dmake stops after a command returns a non-zero
              status,  specifying -k causes dmake to ignore the error and con-
              tinue to make as much as possible.

       -m[trae]
              Measure timing information. Print the time when  targets  and/or
              recipes are started and finished to stdout. The following format
              is used:

              {s|e} {target|recipe} time maketarget

              s or e stands for started or ended, target or recipe denotes  if
              this  line  refers  to  the  whole  target  or a recipe. time is



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              displayed in Unix time format, i.e. the number of seconds  since
              an  epoch.   (Since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).  maketarget obviously
              represents the target the timing information is given for.   The
              optional flags [trae] can be used to change the information that
              is displayed.  If no optional flags are given only the t flag is
              assumed to be selected, ie. -mt.  The optional flags stand for:

              t      Display the start and end time of each target.

              r      Display the start and end time of each recipe.

              a      Display  the target as an absolute path, i.e. prepend the
                     current working directory.

              e      Also display the start and end time of the  $(shell  com-
                     mand) function (aka. shell escape) macros.

       -n     Causes  dmake to print out what it would have executed, but does
              not actually execute the commands.  A special check is made  for
              the  string  "$(MAKE)" inside a recipe line, if it is found, the
              line is expanded and invoked, thereby enabling  recursive  makes
              to give a full description of all that they will do.  This check
              is disabled inside group recipes.

       -p     Print out a version of the digested makefile in  human  readable
              form.  (useful for debugging, but cannot be re-read by dmake)

       -P#    On  systems  that  support multi-processing cause dmake to use #
              concurrent child processes to make targets.  See the "MULTI PRO-
              CESSING" section for more information.

       -q     Check and see if the target is up to date.  Exits with code 0 if
              up to date, 1 otherwise.

       -r     Tells dmake not  to  read  the  initial  startup  makefile,  see
              STARTUP section for more details.

       -s     Tells  dmake  to  do all its work silently and not echo the com-
              mands it is executing  to  stdout  (also  suppresses  warnings).
              This  is equivalent to the .SILENT attribute or macro.

       -S     Force  sequential  execution  of  recipes on architectures which
              support concurrent makes.  For backward compatibility  with  old
              makefiles that have nasty side-effect prerequisite dependencies.
              (Implies -P1)

       -t     Causes dmake to touch the targets and  bring  them  up  to  date
              without  executing  any commands.  Note that targets will not be
              created if they do not already exist.

       -T     Tells dmake to not perform transitive closure on  the  inference
              graph.

       -u     Force an unconditional update.  (ie. do everything that would be
              done if everything that a target depended on was out of date)



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       -v[cdfimrtw]
              Verbose flag, when making targets print to stdout  what  we  are
              going to make and what we think its time stamp is.  The optional
              flags [cdfimrtw] can be used to restrict the information that is
              displayed.  In the absence of any optional flags all are assumed
              to be given (ie. -v is equivalent to -vcdfimrtw).  The  meanings
              of the optional flags are:

              c      Notify of directory cache operations only.

              d      Notify of change directory operations only.

              f      Notify of file I/O operations only.

              i      Notify of inference algorithm operation only.

              m      Notify of target update operations only.

              r      Force  output of recipe lines, warnings and executed com-
                     mands. This switch is usefull  when  debugging  makefiles
                     that  disable  the  output using the @ or @@ property for
                     recipe lines or the .SILENT  target/attribute.   It  also
                     overrides the -s flag.

              t      Keep any temporary files created; normally they are auto-
                     matically deleted.

              w      Notify of non-essential warnings (these are  historical).

       -V     Print the version of dmake, and values of builtin macros.

       -W target
              Run dmake pretending that target is out of date.

       -w target
              What if? Show what would be made if target were out of date.

       -x     Upon  processing  the  user  makefile  export all non-internally
              defined macros to the user's environment.  This option  together
              with  the -e option allows SYSV AUGMAKE recursive makes to func-
              tion as expected.

       -X     Inhibit the execution of #! lines found at the  beginning  of  a
              makefile.   The  use  of  this  flag prevents non-termination of
              recursive make invocations.

INDEX
       Here is a list of the sections that follow and a short  description  of
       each.   Perhaps you won't have to read the entire man page to find what
       you need.

       STARTUP            Describes dmake initialization.

       SYNTAX             Describes the syntax of makefile expressions.




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       ATTRIBUTES         Describes the notion of attributes and how they  are
                          used when making targets.

       MACROS             Defining and expanding macros.

       RULES AND TARGETS  How to define targets and their prerequisites.

       RECIPES            How to tell dmake how to make a target.

       BUILTIN COMMANDS   Internal dmake commands.

       TEXT DIVERSIONS    How  to  use  text  diversions  in recipes and macro
                          expansions.

       VIRTUAL TARGETS    Targets that only enforce  dependencies,  but  which
                          can not create a target file.

       SPECIAL TARGETS    Some targets are special.

       SPECIAL MACROS     Macros  used by dmake to alter the processing of the
                          makefile, and those defined by dmake for the user.

       CONTROL MACROS     Itemized list of special control macros.

       RUNTIME MACROS     Discussion of special run-time macros such as $@ and
                          $<.

       FUNCTION MACROS    Description of functional macros.

       CONDITIONAL MACROS Target specific conditional macros.

       DYNAMIC PREREQUISITES
                          Processing  of  prerequisites  which  contain  macro
                          expansions in their name.

       BINDING TARGETS    The rules that dmake uses to bind  a  target  to  an
                          existing file in the file system.

       PERCENT(%) RULES   Specification of recipes to be used by the inference
                          algorithm.

       MAKING INFERENCES  The rules that dmake uses when inferring how to make
                          a target which has no explicit recipe.  This and the
                          previous section are really a single section in  the
                          text.

       AUGMAKE META RULES A subclass of the PERCENT(%) RULES.

       MAKING TARGETS     How dmake makes targets other than libraries.

       MAKING LIBRARIES   How dmake makes libraries.

       KEEP STATE         A discussion of how .KEEP_STATE works.

       MULTI PROCESSING   Discussion  of  dmake's parallel make facilities for
                          architectures that support them.



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       CONDITIONALS       Conditional expressions which control the processing
                          of the makefile.

       EXAMPLES           Some hopefully useful examples.

       COMPATIBILITY      How dmake compares with previous versions of make.

       LIMITS             Limitations of dmake.

       PORTABILITY        Comments on writing portable makefiles.

       FILES              Files used by dmake.

       SEE ALSO           Other related programs, and man pages.

       AUTHOR             The guy responsible for this thing.

       BUGS               Hope not.

STARTUP
       When  dmake  begins  execution  it first processes the command line and
       then processes an initial startup-makefile.  This  is  followed  by  an
       attempt  to  locate  and process a user supplied makefile.  The startup
       file defines the default values of all required control macros and  the
       set of default rules for making targets and inferences.  When searching
       for the startup makefile, dmake searches the  following  locations,  in
       the order specified, until a startup file is located:


              1.     The  location given as the value of the macro MAKESTARTUP
                     defined on the command line.

              2.     The location given as the value of the environment  vari-
                     able MAKESTARTUP defined in the current environment.

              3.     The  location given as the value of the macro MAKESTARTUP
                     defined internally within dmake.  In  this  version,  the
                     internal   definition   of   MAKESTARTUP   is   "$(DMAKE-
                     ROOT)/startup.mk", so you can set the  environment  vari-
                     able DMAKEROOT to the location of your startup directory.

                     If DMAKEROOT is not changed,  for  native  Windows  dmake
                     versions  its  value defaults to "$(ABSMAKECMD:d)startup"
                     (see definition of ABSMAKECMD  for  details).   For  unix
                     like  versions  build  with the autotools build system it
                     defaults to the  value  of  "${prefix}/share/startup"  at
                     build  time.  The  actual  value,  usually something like
                     /usr/local/share/startup can be checked with the -V  com-
                     mand line switch.

       The above search is disabled by specifying the -r option on the command
       line.  An error is issued if a startup makefile cannot be found and the
       -r  option  was  not specified.  A user may substitute a custom startup
       file by defining the MAKESTARTUP environment variable or by  redefining
       the  MAKESTARTUP  macro  on the command line.  To determine where dmake
       looks for the default startup file, check your environment or issue the



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       command "dmake -V".

       A similar search is performed to locate a default user makefile when no
       -f command line option is specified.  By default, the prerequisite list
       of  the special target .MAKEFILES specifies the names of possible make-
       files and the search order that dmake should use to  determine  if  one
       exists.  A typical definition for this target is:

              .MAKEFILES : makefile.mk Makefile makefile

       dmake  will  first look for makefile.mk and then the others.  If a pre-
       requisite cannot be found dmake will try to make it before going on  to
       the  next prerequisite.  For example, makefile.mk can be checked out of
       an RCS file if the proper rules for doing so are defined in the startup
       file.

       If the first line of the user makefile is of the form:

              #!command command_args

       then  dmake  will expand and run the command prior to reading any addi-
       tional input.  If the return code of the command  is  zero  then  dmake
       will  continue on to process the remainder of the user makefile, if the
       return code is non-zero then dmake will exit.

       dmake builds the internal dependency graph as it parses a  user  speci-
       fied  makefile.  The graph is rooted at the special target .ROOT. .ROOT
       is the top level target that dmake builds when it starts to build  tar-
       gets.  All user specified targets (those from the command line or taken
       as defaults from the makefile) are made prerequisites  of  the  special
       target  .TARGETS.  dmake by default creates the relationship that .ROOT
       depends on .TARGETS and as a result everything is made.  This  approach
       allows  the  user  to  customize,  within their makefile, the order and
       which, target, is built first.  For example the default makefiles  come
       with settings for .ROOT that specify:

              .ROOT .PHONY .NOSTATE .SEQUENTIAL : .INIT .TARGETS .DONE

       with .INIT and .DONE defined as:

              .INIT .DONE .PHONY:;

       which  nicely  emulates  the  behaviour  of Sun's make extensions.  The
       building of .ROOT's prerequisites is always forced  to  be  sequential.
       However,  this definition is trivially changed by supplying the defini-
       tion:

              .ROOT : .TARGETS

       which skips the preamble and postamble phases of building .TARGETS.

       Please note that even though .INIT and .DONE  are  special  exceptions,
       see  section  SPECIAL TARGETS, the use of self defined targets starting
       with `.' should be avoided as they would be handled as  .<suffix>  meta
       targets.  The  target  names  _INIT  and  _DONE  for example would work
       equally well without the .<suffix> drawback.



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SYNTAX
       This section is a summary of the syntax of  makefile  statements.   The
       description is given in a style similar to BNF, where { } enclose items
       that may appear zero or more times, and [  ]  enclose  items  that  are
       optional.   Alternative  productions for a left hand side are indicated
       by '->', and newlines are significant.  All symbols in  bold  type  are
       text or names representing text supplied by the user.




              Makefile -> { Statement }


              Statement -> Macro-Definition
                        -> Conditional-Macro-Definition
                        -> Conditional
                        -> Rule-Definition
                        -> Attribute-Definition


              Macro-Definition -> MACRO = LINE
                               -> MACRO [!]*= LINE
                               -> MACRO [!]:= LINE
                               -> MACRO [!]*:= LINE
                               -> MACRO [!]+= LINE
                               -> MACRO [!]+:= LINE


              Conditional-Macro-Definition ->  TARGET ?= Macro-Definition


              Conditional ->  .IF expression
                                 Makefile
                              [ .ELIF expression
                                 Makefile ]
                              [ .ELSE
                                 Makefile ]
                              .END


              expression -> LINE
                         -> STRING
                         -> expression == expression
                         -> expression != expression
                         -> expression <= expression
                         -> expression >= expression
                         -> ( expression )
                         -> expression || expression
                         -> expression && expression


              Rule-Definition ->  target-definition
                                     [ recipe ]

              target-definition -> targets [attrs] op { PREREQUISITE } [; rcp-line]



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              targets -> target { targets }
                      -> "target" { targets }


              target -> special-target
                     -> TARGET


              attrs -> attribute { attrs }
                    -> "attribute" { attrs }


              op -> : { modifier }


              modifier -> :
                       -> ^
                       -> !
                       -> -
                       -> |


              recipe -> { TAB rcp-line }
                     -> [@[@]][%][-] [
                           { LINE }
                        ]


              rcp-line -> [@[@]][%][-][+] LINE


              Attribute-Definition -> attrs : targets


              attribute -> .EPILOG
                        -> .ERRREMOVE
                        -> .EXECUTE
                        -> .GROUP
                        -> .IGNORE
                        -> .IGNOREGROUP
                        -> .LIBRARY
                        -> .MKSARGS
                        -> .NOINFER
                        -> .NOSTATE
                        -> .PHONY
                        -> .PRECIOUS
                        -> .PROLOG
                        -> .SETDIR=path
                        -> .SILENT
                        -> .SEQUENTIAL
                        -> .SWAP
                        -> .USESHELL
                        -> .SYMBOL
                        -> .UPDATEALL
                        -> .WINPATH




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              special-target -> .ERROR
                             -> .EXIT
                             -> .EXPORT
                             -> .GROUPEPILOG
                             -> .GROUPPROLOG
                             -> .IMPORT
                             -> .INCLUDE
                             -> .INCLUDEDIRS
                             -> .MAKEFILES
                             -> .REMOVE
                             -> .ROOT
                             -> .SOURCE
                             -> .SOURCE.suffix
                             -> .SUFFIXES (deprecated)
                             -> .TARGETS
                             -> .INIT
                             -> .DONE
                             -> .suffix
                             -> .suffix1.suffix2


       Where, TAB represents a <tab> character, STRING represents an arbitrary
       sequence of characters, and LINE represents a possibly  empty  sequence
       of  characters terminated by a non-escaped (not immediately preceded by
       a backslash '\') new-line character.  MACRO, PREREQUISITE,  and  TARGET
       each  represent a string of characters not including space or tab which
       respectively form the name of a macro,  prerequisite  or  target.   The
       name may itself be a macro expansion expression.  A LINE can be contin-
       ued over several physical lines by terminating it with a  single  back-
       slash  character.   Comments are initiated by the pound # character and
       extend to the end of line.  All comment text is discarded, a '#' may be
       placed  into  the  makefile text by escaping it with '\' (ie. \# trans-
       lates to # when it is parsed).  An exception to this occurs when a # is
       seen inside a recipe line that begins with a <tab> or is inside a group
       recipe.  If you specify the -c command line switch then  this  behavior
       is  disabled  and dmake will treat all # characters as start of comment
       indicators unless they are escaped by \.  A set of continued lines  may
       be  commented out by placing a single # at the start of the first line.
       A continued line cannot span more than one makefile.

       white space is defined to be any combination of <space>, <tab>, and the
       sequence \<nl> when \<nl> is used to terminate a LINE. Note the special
       treatment of \<nl> in macro definion and recipe lines below.  When pro-
       cessing macro definition lines, any amount of white space is allowed on
       either side of the macro operator and white space is stripped from both
       before  and  after  the macro value string. A \<nl> sequence in a macro
       definition is deleted from the macro value before assigning this value.
       During  recipe  expansion  the sequence \<nl> is treated as white space
       but is deleted from the final recipe string.  You must escape the \<nl>
       with another \ in order to get a \ at the end of a recipe or macro def-
       inition line.

       When processing target definition lines, the recipe for a target  must,
       in  general,  follow  the first definition of the target (See the RULES
       AND TARGETS section for an exception), and  the  recipe  may  not  span
       across  multiple  makefiles.   Any targets and prerequisites found on a



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       target definition line are taken to be white  space  separated  tokens.
       The  rule  operator  (op  in SYNTAX section) is also considered to be a
       token but does not require white space to precede or follow it.   Since
       the  rule  operator  begins with a `:', traditional versions of make do
       not allow the `:' character to form a valid target name.  dmake  allows
       `:'  to  be  present in target/prerequisite names as long as the entire
       target/prerequisite name is quoted.  For example:

       a:fred : test

       would be parsed as TARGET = a, PREREQUISITES={fred, :, test}, which  is
       not what was intended.  To fix this you must write:

       "a:fred" : test

       Which will be parsed as expected.  Quoted target and prerequisite spec-
       ifications may also contain white space thereby  allowing  the  use  of
       complex  function macro expressions..  See the EXAMPLES section for how
       to apply " quoting to a list of targets.

ATTRIBUTES
       dmake defines several target attributes.  Attributes may be assigned to
       a single target, a group of targets, or to all targets in the makefile.
       Attributes are used to modify dmake actions during target update.   The
       recognized attributes are:


       .EPILOG     Insert  shell  epilog  code  when  executing a group recipe
                   associated with any target having this attribute set.

       .ERRREMOVE  Always remove any target having this attribute if an  error
                   is  encountered  while making them.  Setting this attribute
                   overrides the .PRECIOUS attribute.

       .EXECUTE    If the -n flag was given then execute the recipe associated
                   with any target having this attribute set.

       .FIRST      Used  in  conjunction with .INCLUDE.  Terminates the inclu-
                   sion with the first successfully included prerequisite.

       .GROUP      Force execution of a target's recipe as a group recipe.

       .IGNORE     Ignore an error when trying to make any  target  with  this
                   attribute set.

       .IGNOREGROUP
                   Disable  the  special  meaning  of  '[' to initiate a group
                   recipe.

       .LIBRARY    Target is a library.

       .MKSARGS    If running in an MSDOS environment then  use  MKS  extended
                   argument passing conventions to pass arguments to commands.
                   Non-MSDOS environments ignore this attribute.

       .NOINFER    Any target with this attribute set will not be subjected to
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                   target whose recipe and prerequisites are  being  inferred.
                   (i.e. the inference algorithm will not use any prerequisite
                   with this attribute set,  as  a  target)  If  specified  as
                   '.NOINFER:' (ie. with no prerequisites or targets) then the
                   effect is equivalent to specifying -T on the command  line.

       .NOSTATE    Any  target  with  this attribute set will not have command
                   line  flag  information  stored  in  the  state   file   if
                   .KEEP_STATE has been enabled.

       .PHONY      Any  target  with  this  attribute set will have its recipe
                   executed each time the target is made even if a file match-
                   ing  the target name can be located.  Any targets that have
                   a .PHONY attributed target as a prerequisite will  be  made
                   each time the .PHONY attributed prerequisite is made.

       .PRECIOUS   Do  not  remove  associated target under any circumstances.
                   Set by default for any targets  whose  corresponding  files
                   exist in the file system prior to the execution of dmake.

       .PROLOG     Insert  shell  prolog  code  when  executing a group recipe
                   associated with any target having this attribute set.

       .SEQUENTIAL Force a sequential make of the associated target's  prereq-
                   uisites.  If set as a global attribute this implies setting
                   MAXPROCESS=1.

       .SETDIR     Change current working  directory  to  specified  directory
                   when  making  the  associated target.  You must specify the
                   directory at the time the attribute is  specified.   To  do
                   this  simply  give  .SETDIR=path as the attribute.  path is
                   expanded and the result is used as the value of the  direc-
                   tory  to  change to.  If path contains $$@ then the name of
                   the target to be built is used in  computing  the  path  to
                   change  directory  to.   If  path  is  surrounded by single
                   quotes then path is not expanded, and is used literally  as
                   the  directory  name.  If the path contains any `:' charac-
                   ters then the entire attribute string must be quoted  using
                   ".   If  a  target  having  this attribute set also has the
                   .IGNORE attribute set then if the change to  the  specified
                   directory  fails  it  will be ignored, and no error message
                   will be issued.

       .SILENT     Do not echo the recipe lines when making  any  target  with
                   this attribute set, and do not issue any warnings.

       .SWAP       Under  MSDOS  when  making a target with this attribute set
                   swap the dmake executable to disk prior  to  executing  the
                   recipe  line.  Also see the '%' recipe line flag defined in
                   the RECIPES section.

       .SYMBOL     Target is a library member and is an  entry  point  into  a
                   module  in  the  library.  This attribute is used only when
                   searching a library for a  target.   Targets  of  the  form
                   lib((entry)) have this attribute set automatically.

       .USESHELL   Force  each  recipe line of a target to be executed using a
                   shell.   Specifying  this  attribute   is   equivalent   to



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                   specifying the '+' character at the start of each line of a
                   non-group recipe.

       .UPDATEALL  Indicates that all the targets  listed  in  this  rule  are
                   updated  by  the  execution  of the accompanying recipe.  A
                   common example is the production of the y.tab.c and y.tab.h
                   files  by  yacc  when  it  is run on a grammar.  Specifying
                   .UPDATEALL in such a rule  prevents  the  running  of  yacc
                   twice,  once  for the y.tab.c file and once for the y.tab.h
                   file.  .UPDATEALL targets that are specified  in  a  single
                   rule  are treated as a single target and all timestamps are
                   updated whenever any target in the set is made.  As a side-
                   effect,  dmake  internally  sorts such targets in ascending
                   alphabetical order and the value of $@ is always the  first
                   target in the sorted set.

       .WINPATH    Switch  between default (POSIX) and Windows style path rep-
                   resentation.  (This attribute is specific for cygwin  dmake
                   executables   and   non-cygwin   environments  ignore  this
                   attribute.)

                   Under Cygwin it can be useful  to  generate  Windows  style
                   paths  (with regular slashes) instead of the default cygwin
                   style  (POSIX)  paths  for  dmake's  dynamic  macros.   The
                   affected  macros  are  $@,  $*,  $>,  $?,  $<,  $&,  $^ and
                   $(MAKEDIR), $(PWD), $(TMD), $(TMPFILE) and the $(mktmp ...)
                   function  macro.   This  feature  can be used to create DOS
                   style path parameters for native W32 programs from  dynamic
                   macros.

                   Note that the Windows style paths use regular slashes ('/')
                   instead of the usual Windows backslash ('\')  as  directory
                   separator  to avoid quoting problems (after all it is still
                   a cygwin dmake!) and cygwin, as  well  as  native  Windows,
                   programs  should  have  no problems using this (c:/foo/bar)
                   path representation.

                   Example: Assuming the current target  to  be  /tmp/mytarget
                   the $@ macro without .WINPATH active expands to:

                          /tmp/mytarget

                   With .WINPATH set it expands to:

                          C:/cygwin/tmp/mytarget

       All  attributes are user setable and except for .UPDATEALL and .MKSARGS
       may be used in one of two forms.  The .MKSARGS attribute is  restricted
       to  use  as a global attribute, and the use of the .UPDATEALL attribute
       is restricted to rules of the second form only.

       ATTRIBUTE_LIST : targets

       assigns the attributes specified by ATTRIBUTE_LIST to  each  target  in
       targets or

       targets ATTRIBUTE_LIST : ...




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       assigns  the  attributes  specified by ATTRIBUTE_LIST to each target in
       targets.  In the first form if targets is empty (ie. a NULL list), then
       the  list of attributes will apply to all targets in the makefile (this
       is equivalent to the common Make construct of ".IGNORE :" but has  been
       modified  to  the  notion of an attribute instead of a special target).
       Not  all  of  the  attributes  have  global  meaning.   In  particular,
       .LIBRARY,  .NOSTATE,  .PHONY,  .SETDIR,  .SYMBOL and .UPDATEALL have no
       assigned global meaning.

       Any attribute may be used with any target, even with the  special  tar-
       gets.   Some  combinations are useless (e.g. .INCLUDE .PRECIOUS: ... ),
       while others are useful (e.g. .INCLUDE .IGNORE  :  "file.mk"  will  not
       complain  if  file.mk  cannot  be  found  using the include file search
       rules, see  the  section  on  SPECIAL  TARGETS  for  a  description  of
       .INCLUDE).   If a specified attribute will not be used with the special
       target a warning is issued and the attribute is ignored.

MACROS
       dmake supports six forms of macro assignment.


        MACRO = LINE   This is the most common  and  familiar  form  of  macro
                       assignment.   It assigns LINE literally as the value of
                       MACRO.  Future expansions of MACRO  recursively  expand
                       its value.

        MACRO *= LINE  This  form  behaves exactly as the simple '=' form with
                       the exception that if MACRO already has  a  value  then
                       the assignment is not performed.

        MACRO := LINE  This  form  differs from the simple '=' form in that it
                       expands LINE prior to assigning  it  as  the  value  of
                       MACRO.   Future  expansions of MACRO do not recursively
                       expand its value.

        MACRO *:= LINE This form behaves exactly as the  ':='  form  with  the
                       exception  that  if  MACRO already has a value then the
                       assignment and expansion are not performed.

        MACRO += LINE  This form of macro assignment allows  macro  values  to
                       grow.   It  takes the literal value of LINE and appends
                       it to the previous value of MACRO separating the two by
                       a single space.  Future expansions of MACRO recursively
                       expand its value.

        MACRO +:= LINE This form is similar to the '+=' form except  that  the
                       value  of  LINE is expanded prior to being added to the
                       value of MACRO.

       Macro expressions specified on the command line allow the  macro  value
       to  be redefined within the makefile only if the macro is defined using
       the '+=' and '+:=' operators.  Other operators will define a macro that
       cannot be further modified.

       Each  of the preceeding macro assignment operators may be prefixed by !
       to indicate that the assignment should be forced and that  no  warnings
       should  be issued.  Thus, specifying ! has the effect of silently forc-
       ing the specified macro assignment.



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       When dmake defines a non-environment macro it strips leading and trail-
       ing  white  space from the macro value.  Macros imported from the envi-
       ronment via either the .IMPORT special target (see the SPECIAL  TARGETS
       section),  or the -e, or -E flags are an exception to this rule.  Their
       values are always taken literally and white space  is  never  stripped.
       In  addition,  named macros defined using the .IMPORT special target do
       not have their values expanded when they are used  within  a  makefile.
       In contrast, environment macros that are imported due to the specifica-
       tion of the -e or -E flags are subject to expansion when used.

       To specify a macro expansion enclose the name in () or {}  and  precede
       it  with  a dollar sign $.  Thus $(TEST) represents an expansion of the
       macro variable named TEST.  If TEST is defined then $(TEST) is replaced
       by  its expanded value.  If TEST is not defined then $(TEST) expands to
       the NULL string (this is equivalent to defining a macro as  'TEST='  ).
       A  short  form  may be used for single character named macros.  In this
       case the parentheses are optional, and $(I) is equivalent to $I.  Macro
       expansion  is recursive, hence, if the value string contains an expres-
       sion representing a macro expansion, the expansion is performed.   Cir-
       cular macro expansions are detected and cause an error to be issued.

       When  defining  a  macro  the given macro name is first expanded before
       being used to define the macro.  Thus it is possible to  define  macros
       whose names depend on values of other macros.  For example, suppose CWD
       is defined as

       CWD = $(PWD:b)

       then the value of $(CWD) is the name of the  current  directory.   This
       can be used to define macros specific to this directory, for example:

       _$(CWD).prt = list of files to print...

       The  actual  name  of  the  defined  macro is a function of the current
       directory.  A construct such as this is useful when processing a  hier-
       archy  of directories using .SETDIR attributed targets and a collection
       of small distributed makefile stubs.

       Macro variables may be defined within  the  makefile,  on  the  command
       line, or imported from the environment.

       dmake  supports  several non-standard macro expansions: The first is of
       the form:

              $(macro_name:modifier_list:modifier_list:...)

       where modifier_list may be a combination of:

              b or B - file (not including suffix) portion of path names
              d or D - directory portion of all path names
              e or E - suffix portion of path names
              f or F - file (including suffix) portion of path names
              i or I - inferred names of targets
              n or N - normalized path names
              l or L - macro value in lower case
              u or U - macro value in upper case
              1      - return the first white space separated token from value




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       or a single one of:

              m or M - map escape codes found in macro to their ASCII value
              s or S - simple pattern substitution
              t or T - tokenization.
              ^      - prepend a prefix to each token
              +      - append a suffix to each token

       Thus if we have the example:
              test = d1/d2/d3/a.out f.out d1/k.out
       The following macro expansions produce the values on the right of  '->'
       after expansion.

              $(test:d)             -> d1/d2/d3/ d1/
              $(test:b)             -> a f k
              $(test:f)             -> a.out f.out k.out
              ${test:db}            -> d1/d2/d3/a f d1/k
              ${test:s/out/in/:f}   -> a.in f.in k.in
              $(test:f:t"+")        -> a.out+f.out+k.out
              $(test:e)             -> .out .out .out
              $(test:u)             -> D1/D2/D3/A.OUT F.OUT D1/K.OUT
              $(test:1)             -> d1/d2/d3/a.out

       For this macro
              test = d1/d2/../a.out "d1/file name.ext"
       the following results are returned:

              $(test:n)             -> d1/a.out "d1/file name.ext"

       If  a  token  ends  in  a  string  composed from the value of the macro
       DIRBRKSTR (ie. ends in a directory separator string, e.g. '/' in  UNIX)
       and  you  use  the :d modifier then the expansion returns the directory
       name less the final directory separator string.  Thus successive  pairs
       of :d modifiers each remove a level of directory in the token string.

       The  infered  names of targets :i modifier returnes the actual filename
       associated to the target, see BINDING TARGETS. If the value  is  not  a
       target or prerequisite the value is returned unchanged. For the follow-
       ing example:
              test = aprog bprog
       If aprog and bprog are targets or prerequisits and they  are  bound  to
       /tmp/aprog  and  bprog (see .SOURCE special target) the macro expansion
       has the following effect:

              $(test:i)             -> /tmp/aprog bprog

       The normalized path names :n modifier honors the setting of .WINPATH to
       determine the output format of the result.

       The  map escape codes modifier changes the following escape codes \a =>
       <bel>, \b => <backspace>, \f => <formfeed>, \n => <nl>, \r => <cr>,  \t
       => <tab>, \v => <vertical tab>, \" => ", and \xxx => <xxx> where xxx is
       the octal representation of a character into  the  corresponding  ASCII
       value.

       The  tokenization,  prepend and append modifier may use the same escape
       codes that are supported by the map escape codes modifier in the string
       that  is inserted, prepended or added by the respective macro modifier.



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       These modifiers may quote this string to include otherwise  problematic
       characters.  E.g. spaces, colons and parentheses.

       The  tokenization  modifier takes all white space separated tokens from
       the macro value and separates them by the separator string.   Thus  the
       expansion:

              $(test:f:t"+\n")
       produces:
              a.out+
              f.out+
              k.out

       The  prefix  operator ^ takes all white space separated tokens from the
       macro value and prepends string to each.

              $(test:f:^mydir/)
       produces:
              mydir/a.out mydir/f.out mydir/k.out

       The suffix operator + takes all white space separated tokens  from  the
       macro value and appends string to each.

              $(test:b:+.c)
       produces:
              a.c f.c k.c

       The  next  non-standard  form  of  macro expansion allows for recursive
       macros.  It is possible to specify  a  $(macro_name)  or  ${macro_name}
       expansion  where  macro_name  contains  more $( ... ) or ${ ... } macro
       expansions itself.

       For    example    $(CC$(_HOST)$(_COMPILER))    will    first     expand
       CC$(_HOST)$(_COMPILER)  to get a result and use that result as the name
       of the macro to expand.  This is useful for writing a makefile for more
       than  one  target  environment.   As  an example consider the following
       hypothetical case.  Suppose that _HOST and _COMPILER are imported  from
       the  environment and are set to represent the host machine type and the
       host compiler respectively.

              CFLAGS_VAX_CC = -c -O  # _HOST == "_VAX", _COMPILER == "_CC"
              CFLAGS_PC_MSC = -c -ML # _HOST == "_PC",  _COMPILER == "_MSC"

              # redefine CFLAGS macro as:

              CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS$(_HOST)$(_COMPILER))

       This causes CFLAGS to take on a value that corresponds to the  environ-
       ment in which the make is being invoked.

       The final non-standard macro expansion is of the form:

              string1{token_list}string2

       where  string1,  string2 and token_list are expanded.  After expansion,
       string1 is prepended to each token found in token_list and  string2  is
       appended  to  each  resulting token from the previous prepend.  string1
       and string2 are not delimited by white  space  whereas  the  tokens  in



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       token_list  are.  A null token in the token list is specified using "".
       Thus using another example we have:

              test/{f1 f2}.o     --> test/f1.o test/f2.o
              test/ {f1 f2}.o    --> test/ f1.o f2.o
              test/{f1 f2} .o    --> test/f1 test/f2 .o
              test/{"f1"  ""}.o  --> test/f1.o test/.o

              and

              test/{d1 d2}/{f1 f2}.o --> test/d1/f1.o test/d1/f2.o
                                         test/d2/f1.o test/d2/f2.o

       This last expansion is activated only  when  the  first  characters  of
       token_list appear immediately after the opening '{' with no intervening
       white space.  The reason for this restriction is the  following  incom-
       patibility with Bourne Shell recipes.  The line

              { echo hello;}

       is valid /bin/sh syntax; while

              {echo hello;}

       is  not.  Hence  the latter triggers the enhanced macro expansion while
       the former causes it to be suppressed.  See the SPECIAL MACROS  section
       for  a  description of the special macros that dmake defines and under-
       stands.

RULES AND TARGETS
       A makefile contains a series  of  entries  that  specify  dependencies.
       Such  entries are called target/prerequisite or rule definitions.  Each
       rule definition is optionally followed by a set of lines that provide a
       recipe  for  updating  any targets defined by the rule.  Whenever dmake
       attempts to bring a target up to date and an explicit  recipe  is  pro-
       vided  with  a  rule defining the target, that recipe is used to update
       the target.  A rule definition begins with a line having the  following
       syntax:

              <targets> [<attributes>] <ruleop> [<prerequisites>] [;<recipe>]

       targets  is  a  non-empty  list of targets.  If the target is a special
       target (see SPECIAL TARGETS section below) then it must appear alone on
       the rule line.  For example:

              .IMPORT .ERROR : ...

       is not allowed since both .IMPORT and .ERROR are special targets.  Spe-
       cial targets are not used in the construction of the  dependency  graph
       and will not be made.

       attributes  is  a  possibly  empty  list  of attributes.  Any attribute
       defined  in  the  ATTRIBUTES  section  above  may  be  specified.   All
       attributes  will  be  applied  to the list of named targets in the rule
       definition.  No other targets will be affected.


        NOTE:  As stated earlier, if both the  target  list  and  prerequisite
               list  are  empty  but  the  attributes  list  is  not, then the



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               specified attributes affect all targets in the makefile.


       ruleop is a separator which is used to identify the  targets  from  the
       prerequisites.   Optionally  it  also provides a facility for modifying
       the way in which dmake handles the making of  the  associated  targets.
       In its simplest form the operator is a single ':', and need not be sep-
       arated by white space from its neighboring tokens.  It may additionally
       be followed by any of the modifiers { !, ^, -, :, | }, where:


       !      says execute the recipe for the associated targets once for each
              out of date prerequisite.  (The meaning of the runtime macro  $?
              is changed, see below in the RUNTIME MACROS section.) Ordinarily
              the recipe is executed once for all out of date prerequisites at
              the same time.

       ^      says  to  insert the specified prerequisites, if any, before any
              other prerequisites already associated with the  specified  tar-
              gets.   In  general, it is not useful to specify ^ with an empty
              list of prerequisites.

       -      says to clear the previous list of prerequisites  before  adding
              the new prerequisites.  Thus,

              foo :
              foo : bar baz

              can be replaced by

              foo :- bar baz

              however the old form still works as expected.

       :      When  the rule operator is not modified by a second ':' only one
              set of rules may be specified for  making  a  target.   Multiple
              definitions may be used to add to the list of prerequisites that
              a target depends on.  However, if a target is  multiply  defined
              only  one definition may specify a recipe for making the target.

              When a target's rule operator is modified by a  second  ':'  (::
              for example) then this definition may not be the only definition
              with a recipe for the target.  There may be other :: target def-
              inition lines that specify a different set of prerequisites with
              a different recipe for updating the target.  Any such target  is
              made  if  any  of the definitions find it to be out of date with
              respect to  the  related  prerequisites  and  the  corresponding
              recipe  is  used  to  update the target.  By definition all '::'
              recipes that are found to be out of date for are executed.

              In the following simple example, each rule has  a  `::'  ruleop.
              In  such an operator we call the first `:' the operator, and the
              second `:' the modifier.

              a.o :: a.c b.h
                 first recipe for making a.o

              a.o :: a.y b.h
                 second recipe for making a.o



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              If a.o is found to be out of date with respect to a.c  then  the
              first  recipe  is  used to make a.o.  If it is found out of date
              with respect to a.y then the second recipe is used.  If  a.o  is
              out of date with respect to b.h then both recipes are invoked to
              make a.o.  In the last case the order of invocation  corresponds
              to  the  order in which the rule definitions appear in the make-
              file.

       |      Is defined only for PERCENT rule target definitions.  When spec-
              ified it indicates that the following construct should be parsed
              using the old semantinc meaning:

              %.o :| %.c %.r %.f ; some rule

              is equivalent to:

              %.o : %.c ; some rule
              %.o : %.r ; some rule
              %.o : %.f ; some rule

       Targets defined using a single `:' operator with a recipe may be  rede-
       fined  again with a new recipe by using a `:' operator with a `:' modi-
       fier.  This is equivalent to a target  having  been  initially  defined
       with a rule using a `:' modifier.  Once a target is defined using a `:'
       modifier it may not be defined again with a recipe using only  the  `:'
       operator with no `:' modifier.  In both cases the use of a `:' modifier
       creates a new list of prerequisites and makes it the current  prerequi-
       site list for the target.  The `:' operator with no recipe always modi-
       fies the current list of prerequisites.  Thus assuming each of the fol-
       lowing definitions has a recipe attached, then:

              joe :  fred ...     (1)
              joe :: more ...     (2)

              and

              joe :: fred ...     (3)
              joe :: more ...     (4)

       are  legal and mean:  add the recipe associated with (2), or (4) to the
       set of recipes for joe, placing them after existing recipes for  making
       joe.  The constructs:

              joe :: fred ...     (5)
              joe : more ... (6)

              and

              joe : fred ... (7)
              joe : more ... (8)

       are  errors since we have two sets of perfectly good recipes for making
       the target.

       prerequisites is a possibly empty list of targets that must be  brought
       up to date before making the current target.

       recipe  is a short form and allows the user to specify short rule defi-
       nitions on a single line.  It is taken to be the first recipe line in a



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       larger  recipe  if additional lines follow the rule definition.  If the
       semi-colon is present but the recipe line is empty  (ie.  null  string)
       then  it  is  taken  to be an empty rule.  Any target so defined causes
       target to be treated as a virtual target, see VIRTUAL TARGETS below.

RECIPES
       The traditional format used by most versions of Make defines the recipe
       lines  as  arbitrary  strings  that may contain macro expansions.  They
       follow a rule definition line and may be spaced  apart  by  comment  or
       blank  lines.   The  list of recipe lines defining the recipe is termi-
       nated by a new target definition, a macro definition,  or  end-of-file.
       Each  recipe  line  MUST  begin  with a <TAB> character (or spaces, see
       .NOTABS) which may optionally be followed with one or all the following
       recipe property characters '@%+-' which affect the recipe execution:

       '-'    indicates  that  non-zero  exit  values  (ie.  errors) are to be
              ignored when this recipe line is executed.

       '+'    indicates that the current recipe line is to be  executed  using
              the shell. Group recipes implicitely ignore this property.

       '%'    indicates that dmake should swap itself out to secondary storage
              (MSDOS only) before running the recipe.

       '@'    indicates that the recipe line should NOT be echoed to the  ter-
              minal prior to being executed.

       '@@'   is  a stronger version of the previous property. The recipe line
              and the output (stdout and stderr) of the  executed  recipe  are
              NOT shown on the terminal.

       Each  property  is  off by default (ie. by default, errors are signifi-
       cant, commands are echoed, no swapping is done and a shell is used only
       if  the  recipe  line  contains  a  character found in the value of the
       SHELLMETAS macro).  Global settings activated via command line  options
       or  special  attribute  or target names may also affect these settings.
       An example recipe:

              target :
                     first recipe line
                     second recipe line, executed independent of first.
                     @a recipe line that is not echoed
                     -and one that has errors ignored
                     %and one that causes dmake to swap out
                     +and one that is executed using a shell.

       The second and new format of the recipe block begins the block with the
       character  '['  (the  open group character) in the last non-white space
       position of a line, and terminates the block  with  the  character  ']'
       (the  close group character) in the first non-white space position of a
       line.  In this form each recipe line need not have a leading TAB.  This
       is called a recipe group.  Groups so defined are fed intact as a single
       unit to a shell for execution whenever the corresponding  target  needs
       to  be  updated.  If the open group character '[' is preceded by one or
       all of the recipe properties (-, %, @ and @@) then they  apply  to  the
       entire  group  in  the same way that they apply to single recipe lines.
       You may also specify '+' but it is redundant  as  a  shell  is  already
       being  used  to  run  the recipe.  See the MAKING TARGETS section for a
       description of how dmake invokes recipes.  Here  is  an  example  of  a



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       group recipe:

              target :
              [
                 first recipe line
                 second recipe line
                 tall of these recipe lines are fed to a
                 single copy of a shell for execution.
              ]


BUILTIN COMMANDS
       dmake supports some builtin commands. An optional leading '+' describes
       that the builtin can be used also when being executed in a shell other-
       wise  it  is  only  implemented  when used directly. Remember that if a
       character of the recipe is found in the SHELLMETAS macro the  execution
       of the recipe in a shell is forced.

       [+]noop [something]
              The  noop internal command always returns success if used but it
              is not executed even though the rest of the commandline is eval-
              uated.  This command can be used to evaluate macro expansions at
              the runtime of the recipe without starting a real commmand.

       [+]<empty recipe>
              If an empty recipe line is encountered it is not executed.  This
              sounds  more  trivial than it really is because the recipe could
              consist of macros that evaluated to  empty  or  whitespace  only
              strings.

       echo [-n] data
              This  internal  command prints data (with all leading whitespace
              removed, but otherwise literally) to stdout. If the '-n'  switch
              is given no trailing newline is printed. Note that no quoting is
              removed nor that escape sequences are handled.

       No special treatment of buildin commands for group  recipes  is  imple-
       mented  even  though  the <empty recipe> will most propably also not be
       evaluated by most shells that can be used to handle the recipe  groups.

TEXT DIVERSIONS
       dmake  supports  the  notion of text diversions.  If a recipe line con-
       tains the macro expression

              $(mktmp[,[file][,text]] data)

       then all text contained in the data expression is expanded and is writ-
       ten  to  a  temporary file.  The data in the file will always be termi-
       nated from a new line character.  The file parameter  can  be  used  to
       override  the  name of the temporary file. If its expanded value is not
       empty it will be used instead of the unique and thread safe  file  name
       that  otherwise would be generated internally.  The return value of the
       macro is the name of the temporary file unless the  text  parameter  is
       defined. In this case the return value is the expanded value of text.

       data  can be any text and must be separated from the 'mktmp' portion of
       the macro name by white-space.  The only restriction on the  data  text
       is  that  it  must contain a balanced number of parentheses of the same
       kind as are used to initiate the $(mktmp ...) expression.  For example:



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              $(mktmp $(XXX))

       is legal and works as expected, but:

              $(mktmp text (to dump to file)

       is not legal.  You can achieve what you wish by either defining a macro
       that expands to '(' or by using {} in the macro expression; like this:

              ${mktmp text (to dump to file}

       Since the temporary file is opened when the macro containing  the  text
       diversion  expression  is  expanded,  diversions  may be nested and any
       diversions that are created as part of ':='  macro  expansions  persist
       for  the duration of the dmake run.  If the data text is to contain new
       lines the map escape codes macro expasion can be used.  For example the
       expression:

              mytext:=this is a\ntest of the text diversion
              all:
                   cat $(mktmp $(mytext:m))

       is replaced by:

              cat /tmp/mk12294AA

       where  the  temporary  file contains two lines both of which are termi-
       nated by a new-line.  A second more illustrative  example  generates  a
       response file to an MSDOS link command:

              OBJ = fred.obj mary.obj joe.obj
              all : $(OBJ)
                   link @$(mktmp $(^:t"+\n"))

       The result of making `all' in the second example is the command:

              link @/tmp/mk02394AA

       where the temporary file contains:

              fred.obj+
              mary.obj+
              joe.obj

       The  last  line of the file is terminated by a new-line which is always
       inserted at the end of the data string.

       If the optional file specifier is present it can be used to specify the
       name  of the temporary file to create.  An example that would be useful
       for MSDOS users with a Turbo-C compiler

              $(mktmp,turboc.cfg $(CFLAGS))

       will place the contents of CFLAGS into a local  turboc.cfg  file.   The
       second optional argument, text, if present alters the name of the value
       returned by the $(mktmp ...) macro.

       Under MS-DOS text diversions may be a problem.  Many DOS tools  require
       that  path  names  which  contain  directories  use  the \ character to



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       delimit the directories.  Some users however wish to  use  the  '/'  to
       delimit  pathnames  and use environments that allow them to do so.  The
       macro USESHELL is set to "yes" if the current recipe is forced to use a
       shell via the .USESHELL or '+' directives, otherwise its value is "no".
       The dmake startup files define the macro DIVFILE whose value is  either
       the  value of TMPFILE or the value of TMPFILE edited to replace any '/'
       characters to the appropriate value based  on  the  current  shell  and
       whether it will be used to execute the recipe.

       Previous  versions  of  dmake  defined  text  diversions  using  <+, +>
       strings, where <+ started a  text  diversion  and  +>  terminated  one.
       dmake  is backward compatible with this construct only if the <+ and +>
       appear literally on the same recipe line or in  the  same  macro  value
       string.  In such instances the expression:

       <+data+>

       is mapped to:

       $(mktmp data)

       which  is  fully  output compatible with the earlier construct.  <+, +>
       constructs whose text spans multiple lines must be converted by hand to
       use $(mktmp ...).

       If  the  environment variable TMPDIR is defined then the temporary file
       is placed into the directory specified by that  variable.   A  makefile
       can  modify  the  location of temporary files by defining a macro named
       TMPDIR and exporting it using the .EXPORT special target.

VIRTUAL TARGETS
       Dmake allows to define targets with  the  sole  purpose  to  enforce  a
       dependency  chain  that  are unable to create the target, hence virtual
       targets.  When dmake tries to make a target, but only  finds  a  target
       definition without recipe lines, it would normally issues a "Don't know
       how to make ..." error message, but if a target rule is terminated by a
       semicolon  and  has  no  following recipe lines, or if it has no recipe
       lines, but defines prerequisites, or if the  AUGMAKE  mode  is  enabled
       (see the COMPATIBILITY section for details), the target is treated as a
       virtual target and the error is suppressed. In addition to this, if the
       default  target does not have recipe lines it is also treated as a vir-
       tual target.

       Virtual targets should not have a  corresponding  file  therefore  they
       inherit  the  time  of their newest prerequisite if they have prerequi-
       sites, otherwise they get the current time assigned  when  being  made.
       If the virtual target has a corresponding file a warning is issued, but
       the time stamp of that file is taken into account. The  virtual  target
       uses  the  time stamp of the corresponding file if it is newer than the
       one determined by the previous rule.

SPECIAL TARGETS
       This section describes the  special  targets  that  are  recognized  by
       dmake.  Some are affected by attributes and others are not.

       .ERROR        If defined then the recipe associated with this target is
                     executed whenever  an  error  condition  is  detected  by
                     dmake.   All  attributes  that can be used with any other
                     target may be used with this target.   Any  prerequisites



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                     of this target will be brought up to date during its pro-
                     cessing.  NOTE:  errors will be ignored while making this
                     target, in extreme cases this may cause some problems.

       .EXIT         If  this  target  is encountered while parsing a makefile
                     then the parsing of the makefile  is  immediately  termi-
                     nated at that point.

       .EXPORT       All prerequisites associated with this target are assumed
                     to correspond to macro names and they  and  their  values
                     are exported to the environment as environment strings at
                     the point in the makefile at which this  target  appears.
                     Any  attributes  specified  with this target are ignored.
                     Only macros which have been assigned a value in the make-
                     file  prior  to the export directive are exported, macros
                     as yet undefined or macros whose value  contains  any  of
                     the characters "+=:*" are not exported.

                     Note  that  macros that are not expanded during the macro
                     assignment and contain other macros will be written  into
                     the environment containing these other macros in the form
                     of $(macroname).

       .IMPORT       Prerequisite names specified for this target are searched
                     for  in  the environment and defined as macros with their
                     value taken from the environment.  If  the  special  name
                     .EVERYTHING is used as a prerequisite name then all envi-
                     ronment  variables  defined  in   the   environment   are
                     imported.  The functionality of the -E flag can be forced
                     by placing the construct .IMPORT  :  .EVERYTHING  at  the
                     start of a makefile.  Similarly, by placing the construct
                     at the end, one can emulate the effect of the -e  command
                     line flag.  If a prerequisite name cannot be found in the
                     environment an error message is issued.  .IMPORT  accepts
                     the  .IGNORE  attribute.   When given, it causes dmake to
                     ignore the above error.  See the  MACROS  section  for  a
                     description of the processing of imported macro values.

       .INCLUDE      Parse  another makefile just as if it had been located at
                     the point of the .INCLUDE in the current  makefile.   The
                     list  of prerequisites gives the list of makefiles to try
                     to read.  If the list contains  multiple  makefiles  then
                     they are read in order from left to right.  The following
                     search rules are used when trying to locate the file.  If
                     the filename is surrounded by " or just by itself then it
                     is searched for in the current directory.  If it  is  not
                     found  it is then searched for in each of the directories
                     specified as prerequisites of  the  .INCLUDEDIRS  special
                     target.   If the file name is surrounded by < and >, (ie.
                     <my_spiffy_new_makefile>) then it is searched for only in
                     the directories given by the .INCLUDEDIRS special target.
                     In both cases if the file name is a fully qualified  name
                     starting  at  the root of the file system then it is only
                     searched for once, and the .INCLUDEDIRS list is  ignored.
                     If  .INCLUDE fails to find the file it invokes the infer-
                     ence engine to try to infer and hence make the file to be
                     included.   In this way the file can be checked out of an
                     RCS  repository  for  example.   .INCLUDE   accepts   the
                     .IGNORE,   .SETDIR,  and  .NOINFER  attributes.   If  the



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                     .IGNORE attribute is given and the file cannot  be  found
                     then  dmake continues processing, otherwise an error mes-
                     sage is generated.  If the .NOINFER  attribute  is  given
                     and  the file cannot be found then dmake will not attempt
                     to infer and make the file.  The .SETDIR attribute causes
                     dmake  to  change  directories to the specified directory
                     prior to attempting the include operation.  If all  fails
                     dmake  attempts to make the file to be included.  If mak-
                     ing the file  fails  then  dmake  terminates  unless  the
                     .INCLUDE  directive also specified the .IGNORE attribute.
                     If .FIRST is specified along  with  .INCLUDE  then  dmake
                     attempts to include each named prerequisite and will ter-
                     minate the inclusion with  the  first  prerequisite  that
                     results in a successful inclusion.

       .INCLUDEDIRS  The  list  of  prerequisites  specified  for  this target
                     defines the set of directories to search when  trying  to
                     include a makefile.

       .KEEP_STATE   This special target is a synonym for the macro definition

                     .KEEP_STATE := _state.mk

                     It's effect is to turn on STATE  keeping  and  to  define
                     _state.mk as the state file.

       .MAKEFILES    The  list  of prerequisites is the set of files to try to
                     read as the default makefile.  By default this target  is
                     defined as:

                     .MAKEFILES : makefile.mk Makefile makefile


       .REMOVE       The recipe of this target is used whenever dmake needs to
                     remove intermediate targets that were  made  but  do  not
                     need  to  be  kept  around.  Such targets result from the
                     application  of  transitive  closure  on  the  dependency
                     graph.

       .ROOT         The  internal  root  of the dependency graph, see section
                     STARTUP for details.

       .SOURCE       The prerequisite list of this target  defines  a  set  of
                     directories  to check when trying to locate a target file
                     name.  See the section on BINDING  of  targets  for  more
                     information.

       .SOURCE.suff  The same as .SOURCE, except that the .SOURCE.suff list is
                     searched first when trying to locate a file matching  the
                     a target whose name ends in the suffix .suff.

       .SUFFIXES     This  deprecated  special  target has no special meaning.
                     Avoid its use.

       .TARGETS      The internal targets that all user  defined  targets  are
                     prerequisites of, see section STARTUP for details.

       There are a few targets that are "slightly" special:




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              .INIT
              .DONE

       These  targets  exist  because  of historical reasons, see the usage of
       .INIT and .DONE in section "STARTUP", they can be used and  defined  as
       ordinary  targets  but  are  special in the sense that even though they
       start with a `.'  they are not treated as a .<suffix> meta target  (See
       the AUGMAKE META RULES section for details).

       Please  note  that self defined targets shouldn't use the prefix `.' as
       they would be handled as .<suffix> meta targets and dmake most propably
       would complain about this.

       In  addition  to the special targets above, several other forms of tar-
       gets are recognized and are considered special, their  exact  form  and
       use is defined in the sections that follow.

SPECIAL MACROS
       dmake  defines a number of special macros.  They are divided into three
       classes: control macros, run-time macros,  and  function  macros.   The
       control  macros are used by dmake to configure its actions, and are the
       preferred method of doing so.  In the case when a control macro has the
       same function as a special target or attribute they share the same name
       as the special target or attribute.  The run-time  macros  are  defined
       when  dmake  makes  targets and may be used by the user inside recipes.
       The function macros provide higher level functions dealing  with  macro
       expansion and diversion file processing.

CONTROL MACROS
       To  use  the  control  macros  simply assign them a value just like any
       other macro.  The control macros are divided into three groups:  string
       valued macros, character valued macros, and boolean valued macros.

       The  following  are  all  of  the  string  valued macros.  This list is
       divided into two groups.  The  first  group  gives  the  string  valued
       macros  that  are  defined internally and cannot be directly set by the
       user.

       ABSMAKECMD      Warning! This macro's value is differently defined  for
                       a  native  Windows  dmake  executable (compiled with MS
                       Visual C++ or MinGW) and dmake for other operating sys-
                       tems or build with other compilers.

                       In the first case its value is the absolute filename of
                       the executable of the current dmake process,  otherwise
                       it is defined as the NULL string.

       INCDEPTH        This  macro's  value is a string of digits representing
                       the current depth of makefile inclusion.  In the  first
                       makefile level this value is zero.

       MFLAGS          Is  the  list  of  flags that were given on the command
                       line including a leading switch character.  The -f flag
                       is not included in this list.

       MAKECMD         Is the name with which dmake was invoked.

       MAKEDIR         Is  the  full  path  to  the initial directory in which
                       dmake was invoked.



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       MAKEFILE        Contains the string "-f makefile"  where,  makefile  is
                       the  name of initial user makefile that was first read.

       MAKEFLAGS       Is the same as $(MFLAGS)  but  has  no  leading  switch
                       character. (ie. MFLAGS = -$(MAKEFLAGS))

       MAKEMACROS      Contains  the  complete  list of macro expressions that
                       were specified on the command line.

       MAKETARGETS     Contains the name(s) of the  target(s),  if  any,  that
                       were specified on the command line.

       MAKEVERSION     Contains  a string indicating the current dmake version
                       number.

       MAXPROCESSLIMIT Is a numeric string representing the maximum number  of
                       processes  that dmake can use when making targets using
                       parallel mode.

       NULL            Is permanently defined to be the NULL string.  This  is
                       useful  when  comparing  a conditional expression to an
                       NULL value.

       PWD             Is the full path to the current directory in which make
                       is executing.

       SPACECHAR       Is  permanently defined to contain one space character.
                       This is useful when using space characters in  function
                       macros,  e.g.  subst,  that otherwise would get deleted
                       (leading/trailing spaces) or for using spaces in  func-
                       tion macro parameters.

       TMPFILE         Is  set  to  the name of the most recent temporary file
                       opened by dmake.  Temporary files  are  used  for  text
                       diversions and for group recipe processing.

       TMD             Stands  for  "To  Make  Dir",  and is the path from the
                       present directory (value of $(PWD))  to  the  directory
                       that  dmake was started up in (value of $(MAKEDIR)). If
                       the present directory is the directory that  dmake  was
                       started up in TMD will be set to the relative path ".".
                       This  allows  to  create  valid  paths  by   prepending
                       $(TMD)$(DIRSEPSTR)  to  a relative path.  This macro is
                       modified when .SETDIR attributes  are  processed.   TMD
                       will  usually be a relative path with the following two
                       exceptions. If the relative path would go up until  the
                       root  directory or if different drive letters (DOS file
                       system) make a relative path  impossible  the  absolute
                       path from MAKEDIR is used.

       USESHELL        The  value of this macro is set to "yes" if the current
                       recipe is forced to use a shell for its  execution  via
                       the .USESHELL or '+' directives, its value is "no" oth-
                       erwise.


       The second group of string valued macros control dmake behavior and may
       be set by the user.




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       .DIRCACHE       If  set  to  "yes" enables the directory cache (this is
                       the default).  If set to "no"  disables  the  directory
                       cache (equivalent to -d command-line flag).

       .DIRCACHERESPCASE
                       If set to "yes" causes the directory cache, if enabled,
                       to respect file case, if set to "no" files  are  cached
                       case insensitive.  By default it is set to "no" on Win-
                       dows as the filesystems on this  operating  system  are
                       case insensitive and set to "yes" for all other operat-
                       ing systems. The default can be overriden, if  desired.

                       Note:  Using case insensitive directory caching on case
                       sensitive file systems is a BAD idea. If in  doubt  use
                       case  sensitive directory caching even on case insensi-
                       tive file systems as the worst case in this scenario is
                       that  /foo/bar/  and  /foo/BAR/  are  cached separately
                       (with the same content) even though they are  the  same
                       directory.  This would only happen if different targets
                       use different upper/lower case spellings for  the  same
                       directory and that is never a good idea.

       NAMEMAX         Defines  the  maximum  length  of a filename component.
                       The value of the variable is initialized at startup  to
                       the value of the compiled macro NAME_MAX.  On some sys-
                       tems the value of NAME_MAX is  too  short  by  default.
                       Setting  a new value for NAMEMAX will override the com-
                       piled value.

       .NOTABS         When set to "yes" enables the use of spaces as well  as
                       <tabs>  to  begin recipe lines.  By default a non-group
                       recipe is terminated by  a  line  without  any  leading
                       white-space  or  by  a  line not beggining with a <tab>
                       character.  Enabling this mode modifies the first  con-
                       dition  of  the  above  termination rule to terminate a
                       non-group  recipe  with  a  line  that  contains   only
                       white-space.   This mode does not effect the parsing of
                       group recipes bracketed by [].

       AUGMAKE         If set to "yes" value will enable the transformation of
                       special  meta targets to support special AUGMAKE infer-
                       ences (See the "AUGMAKE META RULES" and "COMPATIBILITY"
                       sections).

       DIRBRKSTR       Contains the string of chars used to terminate the name
                       of a directory in a pathname.  Under UNIX its value  is
                       "/", under MSDOS its value is "/\:".

       DIRSEPSTR       Contains  the string that is used to separate directory
                       components when path  names  are  constructed.   It  is
                       defined with a default value at startup.

       DIVFILE         Is  defined in the startup file and gives the name that
                       should be returned for the  diversion  file  name  when
                       used in $(mktmp ...) expansions, see the TEXT DIVERSION
                       section for details.

       .KEEP_STATE     Assigning this macro a value tells dmake  the  name  of
                       the state file to use and turns on the keeping of state



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                       information for any targets that are brought up to date
                       by the make.

       GROUPFLAGS      This  macro gives the set of flags to pass to the shell
                       when invoking it to execute a group recipe.  The  value
                       of the macro is the list of flags with a leading switch
                       indicator.  (ie. `-' under UNIX)

       GROUPSHELL      This macro defines the  full  path  to  the  executable
                       image  to  be  used  as the shell when processing group
                       recipes.  This macro must be defined if  group  recipes
                       are  used.   It  is  assigned  a  default  value in the
                       startup makefile.  Under UNIX this value is /bin/sh.

       GROUPSUFFIX     If defined, this macro gives the string  to  use  as  a
                       suffix when creating group recipe files to be handed to
                       the command interpreter.  For example, if it is defined
                       as  .sh, then all temporary files created by dmake will
                       end in the suffix .sh.  Under MSDOS if  you  are  using
                       command.com  as  your GROUPSHELL, then this suffix must
                       be set to .bat in order for group recipes  to  function
                       correctly.   The  setting of GROUPSUFFIX and GROUPSHELL
                       is done automatically for command.com in the startup.mk
                       files.

       MAKE            Is  defined  in the startup file by default.  Initially
                       this macro is defined to  have  the  value  "$(MAKECMD)
                       $(MFLAGS)".   The  string  $(MAKE)  is  recognized when
                       using the -n switch.

       MAKESTARTUP     This macro defines the full path to the initial startup
                       makefile.   Use  the -V command line option to discover
                       its initial value.

       MAXLINELENGTH   This macro defines the maximum size of a single line of
                       makefile  input  text.  The size is specified as a num-
                       ber, the default value is  defined  internally  and  is
                       shown  via the -V option.  A buffer of this size plus 2
                       is allocated for reading makefile text.  The buffer  is
                       freed  before  any  targets  are made, thereby allowing
                       files containing long input lines to be processed with-
                       out  consuming  memory  during  the  actual make.  This
                       macro can only be used to extend the line length beyond
                       it's default minimum value.

       MAXPROCESS      Specify  the  maximum  number of child processes to use
                       when making targets.  The default value of  this  macro
                       is  "1"  and  its  value cannot exceed the value of the
                       macro MAXPROCESSLIMIT.  Setting the value of MAXPROCESS
                       on the command line or in the makefile is equivalent to
                       supplying a corresponding value to the -P flag  on  the
                       command  line.  If  the global .SEQUENTIAL attribute is
                       set (or the -S command line switch is used)  the  value
                       of MAXPROCESS is fixed to "1" and cannot be changed.

       OOODMAKEMODE    This  macro enables a special compatibility mode needed
                       by the OpenOffice.org build system. If set, the  switch
                       disables the removal of leading './' path elements dur-
                       ing  target   filename   normalization   (See   BINDING



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                       TARGETS).  If  './'  appear in the pathname, but not at
                       the beginning of it, they are still removed by the nor-
                       malization.  Please note that targets that are given on
                       the command line are going to be registered as  default
                       targets after the startup file is read.

       PREP            This  macro  defines  the  number  of  iterations to be
                       expanded automatically when processing %  rule  defini-
                       tions of the form:

                       % : %.suff

                       See the sections on PERCENT(%) RULES for details on how
                       PREP is used.

       SHELL           This macro defines the  full  path  to  the  executable
                       image  to  be  used as the shell when processing single
                       line recipes.  This macro must be  defined  if  recipes
                       requiring  the  shell for execution are to be used.  It
                       is assigned a default value in  the  startup  makefile.
                       Under UNIX this value is /bin/sh.

       SHELLCMDQUOTE   This  macro  can  be  used to add additional characters
                       before and after the command string that is  passed  to
                       the  shell defined by the SHELL macro.  If needed, like
                       for cmd.exe and command.com, it is assigned a value  in
                       the startup file.

       SHELLFLAGS      This  macro gives the set of flags to pass to the shell
                       when invoking it to execute a single line recipe.   The
                       value  of the macro is the list of flags with a leading
                       switch indicator.  (ie. `-' under UNIX)

       SHELLMETAS      Each time dmake executes a single recipe  line  (not  a
                       group  recipe)  the line is searched for any occurrence
                       of a character defined in the value of SHELLMETAS.   If
                       such a character is found the recipe line is defined to
                       require a shell to ensure its  correct  execution.   In
                       such  instances  a  shell  is used to invoke the recipe
                       line.  If no match is found the recipe line is executed
                       without the use of a shell.


       There  is  only  one  character valued macro defined by dmake: SWITCHAR
       contains the switch character used  to  introduce  options  on  command
       lines.   For  UNIX its value is `-', and for MSDOS its value may be `/'
       or `-'.  The macro is internally defined and is not user setable.   The
       MSDOS version of dmake attempts to first extract SWITCHAR from an envi-
       ronment variable of the same name.  If that fails it then  attempts  to
       use the undocumented getswitchar system call, and returns the result of
       that.  Under MSDOS version 4.0 you must set the value of  the  environ-
       ment macro SWITCHAR to '/' to obtain predictable behavior.

       All boolean macros currently understood by dmake correspond directly to
       the previously defined attributes.  These macros provide a  second  way
       to apply global attributes, and represent the preferred method of doing
       so.  They are used by assigning them a value.  If the value  is  not  a
       NULL string then the boolean condition is set to on.  If the value is a
       NULL string  then  the  condition  is  set  to  off.   There  are  five



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       conditions  defined  and  they correspond directly to the attributes of
       the same name.  Their meanings are defined in  the  ATTRIBUTES  section
       above.   The  macros  are:  .EPILOG, .IGNORE, .MKSARGS, .NOINFER, .PRE-
       CIOUS, .PROLOG, .SEQUENTIAL, .SILENT, .SWAP, and .USESHELL.   Assigning
       any  of  these  a  non  NULL  value will globally set the corresponding
       attribute to on.

RUNTIME MACROS
       These macros are defined when dmake is making targets, and may take  on
       different  values for each target.  $@ is defined to be the full target
       name, $? is the list of all out of date prerequisites, except for the !
       ruleop,  in  which  case  it  is  set to the current build prerequisite
       instead.  $& is the list of all prerequisites, $> is the  name  of  the
       library  if  the current target is a library member, and $< is the list
       of prerequisites specified in the current rule.  If the current  target
       had  a recipe inferred then $< is the name of the inferred prerequisite
       even if the target had  a  list  of  prerequisites  supplied  using  an
       explicit  rule  that  did  not provide a recipe.  In such situations $&
       gives the full list of prerequisites.

       $* is defined as $(@:db) when making targets with explicit recipes  and
       is  defined  as  the value of % when making targets whose recipe is the
       result of an inference.  In the first case $* is the target  name  with
       no  suffix,  and in the second case, is the value of the matched % pat-
       tern from the associated %-rule.  $^ expands to the set of out of  date
       prerequisites  taken  from  the  current  value  of $<.  In addition to
       these, $$ expands to $, {{ expands to {,  }}  expands  to  },  and  the
       strings <+ and +> are recognized as respectively starting and terminat-
       ing a text diversion when they appear literally together  in  the  same
       input line.

       The difference between $? and $^ can best be illustrated by an example,
       consider:

              fred.out : joe amy hello
              rules for making fred

              fred.out : my.c your.h his.h her.h   # more prerequisites

       Assume joe, amy, and my.c are newer then fred.out.  When dmake executes
       the  recipe for making fred.out the values of the following macros will
       be:

              $@ --> fred.out
              $* --> fred
              $? --> joe amy my.c  # note output of $? vs $^
              $^ --> joe amy
              $< --> joe amy hello
              $& --> joe amy hello my.c your.h his.h her.h


FUNCTION MACROS
       dmake supports a full set of functional  macros.   One  of  these,  the
       $(mktmp  ...)  macro, is discussed in detail in the TEXT DIVERSION sec-
       tion and is not covered here.  The names of function macros must appear
       literally  after  the opening $( or ${. They are not recognized if they
       are the result of a recursive expansion.

       Note that some of these macros take comma separated parameters but that



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       these  parameters  must not contain literal whitespaces. Whitespaces in
       macros used in these parameters are allowed.


              $(and macroterm ...)
                     expands each macroterm in turn until there are no more or
                     one  of  them  returns an empty string.  If all expand to
                     non-empty strings the macro returs the string "t"  other-
                     wise it returns an empty string.


              $(assign expression)
                     Causes  expression  to  be  parsed  as a macro assignment
                     expression and results in the specified assignment  being
                     made.   An  error  is  issued  if  the  assignment is not
                     syntatically  correct.   expression  may  contain   white
                     space.   This  is  in  effect  a dynamic macro assignment
                     facility and may appear  anywhere  any  other  macro  may
                     appear.   The  result  of  the  expanding a dynamic macro
                     assignment expression is the name of the macro  that  was
                     assigned  and  $(NULL)  if  the expression is not a valid
                     macro assignment expression.  Some examples are:

                     $(assign foo := fred)
                     $(assign $(ind_macro_name) +:= $(morejunk))

              $(echo list)
                     Echo's the value of list.  list is not expanded.

              $(eq,text_a,text_b true false)
                     expands text_a and text_b and compares their results.  If
                     equal  it returns the result of the expansion of the true
                     term, otherwise it returns the  expansion  of  the  false
                     term.

              $(!eq,text_a,text_b true false)
                     Behaves identically to the previous macro except that the
                     true string is  chosen  if  the  expansions  of  the  two
                     strings are not equal

              $(foreach,var,list data)
                     Implements  iterative macro expansion over data using var
                     as the iterator taking on values from list. var and  list
                     are  expanded  and  the  result  is  the concatenation of
                     expanding data with var being set to each whitespace sep-
                     arated token from list.  For example:

                             list = a b c
                             all :; echo [$(foreach,i,$(list) [$i])]

                     will output

                             [[a] [b] [c]]

                     The  iterator  variable is defined as a local variable to
                     this foreach instance.  The following  expression  illus-
                     trates this:

                             $(foreach,i,$(foreach,i,$(sort c a b) root/$i) [$i/f.h])



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                     when evaluated the result is:

                             [root/a/f.h] [root/b/f.h] [root/c/f.h]

                     The  specification  of list must be a valid macro expres-
                     sion, such as:

                             $($(assign list=a b c))
                             $(sort d a b c)
                             $(echo a b c)

                     and cannot just be the list itself.  That is, the follow-
                     ing foreach expression:

                             $(foreach,i,a b c [$i])

                     yields:

                             "b c [a]"

                     when evaluated.

              $(nil expression)
                     Always  returns  the  value of $(NULL) regardless of what
                     expression is.  This function macro can be used  to  dis-
                     card results of expanding macro expressions.

              $(normpath list)
                     Will  return the normalized path names of all white-space
                     separated tokens in list. Quotes can be used to normalize
                     path names that contain white-space characters. On cygwin
                     the result honors the setting of  .WINPATH  to  determine
                     the output format of the returned path names.

              $(normpath,para list)
                     Same  as  above except that the expanded value of para is
                     used to override the .WINPATH setting.

              $(not macroterm)
                     expands macroterm and returs the string "t" if the result
                     of  the  expansion  is  the  empty  string; otherwise, it
                     returns the empty string.

              $(null,text true false)
                     expands the value of text.  If it is NULL then the  macro
                     returns the value of the expansion of true and the expan-
                     sion of false otherwise.  The terms true, and false  must
                     be strings containing no white-space.

              $(!null,text true false)
                     Behaves identically to the previous macro except that the
                     true string is chosen if the expansion  of  text  is  not
                     NULL.

              $(or macroterm ...)
                     expands  each  macroterm  in  turn  and  returs the empty
                     string if each term expands to the empty  string;  other-
                     wise, it returs the string "t".




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              $(shell command)
                     is  a  shell  escape macro. It runs command as if it were
                     part of a recipe  and  returns,  separated  by  a  single
                     space, all the non-white space terms written to stdout by
                     the command.  For example:

                             $(shell ls *.c)

                     will return "a.c b.c c.c d.c" if the files exist  in  the
                     current  directory.  The recipe modification flags [+@%-]
                     are honored if they appear as the first characters in the
                     command.  For example:

                             $(shell +ls *.c)

                     will run the command using the current shell.

                     Note  that  if  the  macro is part of a recipe it will be
                     evaluated after all previous recipe lines have been  exe-
                     cuted.  For  obvious  reasons it will be evaluated before
                     the current recipe line or group recipe is executed.

              $(shell,expand command)
                     Is an extension to the $(shell  command)  function  macro
                     that expands the result of running command.

              $(sort list)
                     Will  take  all  white-space separated tokens in list and
                     will return their sorted equivalent list.

              $(strip data)
                     Will replace all strings of white-space in data by a sin-
                     gle space.

              $(subst,pat,replacement data)
                     Will  search  for pat in data and will replace any occur-
                     rence of pat with the replacement string.  The expansion

                     $(subst,.o,.c $(OBJECTS))

              is equivalent to:

                     $(OBJECTS:s/.o/.c/)


              $(uniq list)
                     Will take all white-space separated tokens  in  list  and
                     will  return  their  sorted equivalent list containing no
                     duplicates.

       For historic reasons dmake treats the following case slightly special:

              $(name something)

       If it encounters a macro with a whitespace after name and name  is  not
       literally  one  of  the above mentioned function macro identifiers then
       dmake will return the  recursively  expanded  value  of  $(name).   The
       remaining  something  part will be expanded but the result will be dis-
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       used.


CONDITIONAL MACROS
       dmake  supports conditional macros.  These allow the definition of tar-
       get specific macro values.  You can now say the following:

              target ?= MacroName MacroOp Value

       This creates a definition for MacroName whose value is Value only  when
       target  is being made.  You may use a conditional macro assignment any-
       where that a regular macro assignment  may  appear,  including  as  the
       value of a $(assign ...) macro.

       The  new  definition is associated with the most recent cell definition
       for target.  If no prior definition exists then one  is  created.   The
       implications of this are immediately evident in the following example:

              foo := hello

              all : cond;@echo "all done, foo=[$(foo)] bar=[$(bar)]"

              cond ?= bar := global decl

              cond .SETDIR=unix::;@echo $(foo) $(bar)
              cond ?= foo := hi

              cond .SETDIR=msdos::;@echo $(foo) $(bar)
                   cond ?= foo := hihi

       The  first  conditional  assignment creates a binding for 'bar' that is
       activated when 'cond' is made.  The bindings following the  ::  defini-
       tions  are activated when their respective recipe rules are used.  Thus
       the first binding serves to provide a global value for 'bar' while  any
       of  the  cond  :: rules are processed, and the local bindings for 'foo'
       come into effect when their associated :: rule is processed.

       Conditionals for targets of .UPDATEALL are  all  activated  before  the
       target  group  is made.  Assignments are processed in order.  Note that
       the value of a conditional macro assignment is NOT AVAILABLE until  the
       associated target is made, thus the construct

              mytarget ?= bar := hello
              mytarget ?= foo := $(bar)

       results in $(foo) expanding to "", if you want the result to be "hello"
       you must use:

              mytarget ?= bar := hello
              mytarget ?= foo  = $(bar)

       Once a target is made any associated conditional macros are deactivated
       and their values are no longer available.  Activation occurrs after all
       inference, and .SETDIR directives have been processed and after  $@  is
       assigned,  but  before  prerequisites are processed; thereby making the
       values of conditional macro definitions available  during  construction
       of prerequisites.

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       and the rule is chosen by the inference algorithm then the  conditional
       macro assignments are inferred together with the associated recipe.

DYNAMIC PREREQUISITES
       dmake looks for prerequisites whose names contain macro expansions dur-
       ing target processing.  Any such prerequisites  are  expanded  and  the
       result  of the expansion is used as the prerequisite name.  As an exam-
       ple the line:

       fred : $$@.c

       causes the $$@ to be  expanded  when  dmake  is  making  fred,  and  it
       resolves  to the target fred.  This enables dynamic prerequisites to be
       generated.  The value of @ may be modified by any of  the  valid  macro
       modifiers.  So you can say for example:

       fred.out : $$(@:b).c

       where  the $$(@:b) expands to fred.  Note the use of $$ instead of $ to
       indicate the dynamic expansion, this is due to the fact that  the  rule
       line  is  expanded  when  it is initially parsed, and $$ then returns $
       which later triggers the dynamic prerequisite expansion.  Dynamic macro
       expansion  is performed in all user defined rules, and the special tar-
       gets .SOURCE*, and .INCLUDEDIRS.

       NOTE: The use of a $ as part  of  a  prerequisite  or  target  name  is
       strongly  discouraged as the runtime macros (like $@) are expanded when
       used in a recipe line so that the $ is interpreted as a  macro  identi-
       fier  and not as a character of the filename leading to invalid runtime
       macros.  In addition to this no filename normalization is done for pre-
       requisites  and  targets that contain $ characters.  Nevertheless it is
       possible to use $ in prerequisites by using $$$$ but this is not recom-
       mended and can lead to surprising results.

       If  dynamic  macro  expansion results in multiple white space separated
       tokens then these are inserted into the prerequisite  list  inplace  of
       the  dynamic prerequisite.  Due to the recursive nature of macro expan-
       sion the prerequisite list is fully expanded even if the  dynamic  pre-
       requisite contained other runtime macros.

BINDING TARGETS
       This operation takes a target name and binds it to an existing file, if
       possible.  dmake makes a distinction between the internal  target  name
       of a target and its associated external file name.  Thus it is possible
       for a target's internal name and its external file name to differ.   To
       perform  the  binding, the following set of rules is used.  Assume that
       we are trying to bind a target whose name is of the form X.suff,  where
       .suff is the suffix and X is the stem portion (ie. that part which con-
       tains the directory and the basename).  dmake takes  this  target  name
       and  performs a series of search operations that try to find a suitably
       named file in the external file system.  The search operation  is  user
       controlled via the settings of the various .SOURCE targets.

              1.     If  target has the .SYMBOL attribute set then look for it
                     in the library.  If found, replace the target  name  with
                     the library member name and continue with step 2.  If the
                     name is not found then return.

              2.     Extract the suffix portion (that following  the  `.')  of
                     the  target name.  If the suffix is not null, look up the



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                     special target .SOURCE.<suff> (<suff> is the suffix).  If
                     the  special  target  exists  then  search each directory
                     given in the .SOURCE.<suff>  prerequisite  list  for  the
                     target.   If  the target's suffix was null (ie. .suff was
                     empty) then perform the above search but use the  special
                     target  .SOURCE.NULL instead.  If at any point a match is
                     found then terminate the search.  If a directory  in  the
                     prerequisite  list is the special name `.NULL ' perform a
                     search for the full target name  without  prepending  any
                     directory portion (ie. prepend the NULL directory).

              3.     The search in step 2. failed.  Repeat the same search but
                     this time use the special  target  .SOURCE.   (a  default
                     target  of  '.SOURCE  :  .NULL'  is  defined  by dmake at
                     startup, and is user redefinable)

              4.     The search in step 3. failed.   If  the  target  has  the
                     library  member  attribute  (.LIBMEMBER)  set then try to
                     find the target in the library  which  was  passed  along
                     with  the  .LIBMEMBER attribute (see the MAKING LIBRARIES
                     section).  The bound file name assigned to a target which
                     is  successfully  located  in  a library is the same name
                     that would be assigned had the search failed (see 5.).

              5.     The search failed.  Either the target was  not  found  in
                     any  of  the  search directories or no applicable .SOURCE
                     special targets exist.   If  applicable  .SOURCE  special
                     targets  exist,  but the target was not found, then dmake
                     assigns the first name searched as the bound  file  name.
                     If  no applicable .SOURCE special targets exist, then the
                     full original target name becomes the bound file name.

       There is potential here for a lot of search operations.  The  trick  is
       to  define  .SOURCE.x special targets with short search lists and leave
       .SOURCE as short as possible.  The search algorithm has  the  following
       useful  side effect.  When a target having the .LIBMEMBER (library mem-
       ber) attribute is searched for, it is first searched for as an ordinary
       file.   When  a number of library members require updating it is desir-
       able to compile all of them first and to update the library at the  end
       in  a  single  operation.   If  one of the members does not compile and
       dmake stops, then the user may fix the error  and  make  again.   dmake
       will not remake any of the targets whose object files have already been
       generated as long as none of their prerequisite files have  been  modi-
       fied as a result of the fix.

       When dmake constructs target (and prerequisite) pathnames they are nor-
       malized  to the shortest (or most natural, see  below  for  the  cygwin
       case) representation.  Substrings like './' or of the form 'baz/..' are
       removed and multiple slashes are collapsed to one unless  they  are  at
       the beginning of the pathname. Leading slashes are normalized according
       to POSIX rules, i.e. more than two leading slashes are reduced  to  one
       slash  and  a  leading '//' is kept as it might have a special meaning.
       For example "./foo", "bar/../foo" and foo are recognized  as  the  same
       file.   This  may  result  in  somewhat  unexpected values of the macro
       expansion of runtime macros like $@, but is infact the corect result.

       NOTE:  A cygwin dmake executable will accept DOS  like  pathnames  with
       drive  letters  and  cygwin POSIX pathnames and normalize them into its
       natural POSIX representation.  This might result in even more  surpris-
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       When defining .SOURCE and .SOURCE.x targets the construct

              .SOURCE :
              .SOURCE : fred gery

       is equivalent to

              .SOURCE :- fred gery

       dmake  correctly  handles  the UNIX Make variable VPATH.  By definition
       VPATH contains a list of ':' separated directories to search when look-
       ing for a target.  dmake maps VPATH to the following special rule:

              .SOURCE :^ $(VPATH:s/:/ /)

       Which  takes  the  value  of  VPATH and sets .SOURCE to the same set of
       directories as specified in VPATH.

PERCENT(%) RULES AND MAKING INFERENCES
       When dmake makes a target, the target's set of prerequisites  (if  any)
       must  exist  and  the  target must have a recipe which dmake can use to
       make it.  If the makefile does not specify an explicit recipe  for  the
       target  then dmake uses special rules to try to infer a recipe which it
       can use to make the target.  Previous versions  of  Make  perform  this
       task  by  using  rules  that  are defined by targets of the form .<suf-
       fix>.<suffix> (this is still supported, see "AUGMAKE META RULES") or by
       using  the not supported by dmake .SUFFIXES list of suffixes (see "SPE-
       CIAL TARGETS" for more details about .SUFFIXES).  The exact workings of
       this  mechanism were sometimes difficult to understand and often limit-
       ing in their usefulness.  Instead, dmake supports the concept of %-meta
       rules.   The  syntax  and semantics of these rules differ from standard
       rule lines as follows:

              <%-targets> [<attributes>] <ruleop> [<%-prereqs>] [;<recipe>]

       where %-targets are one or more targets containing exactly a single `%'
       sign,  attributes  is  a list (possibly empty) of attributes, ruleop is
       the standard set of rule operators, %-prereqs , if present, is  a  list
       of  prerequisites  containing  zero  or  more `%' signs, and recipe, if
       present, is the first line of the recipe.

       If more than one %-target is present this line is equivalent to a repe-
       tition  of  the whole [<attributes>] <ruleop> [<%-prereqs>] [;<recipe>]
       sequence for each %-target, i.e. it is possible  to  specify  the  same
       rule  for  multiple  %-targets.  Because  of this following only speaks
       about <%-target> as %-targets are  divided  into  multiple  definitions
       with a single %-target.

       NOTE:   As  multiple %-targets didn't work reliably with dmake versions
       prior to 4.5 unless the rule operator `|:' was used we currently  issue
       a warning stating that it now works.

       The  %-target  defines a pattern against which a target whose recipe is
       being inferred gets matched.  The pattern match goes as  follows:   all
       chars  are  matched  exactly from left to right up to but not including
       the % sign in the pattern, % then matches the longest string  from  the
       actual  target  name not ending in the suffix given after the % sign in
       the pattern.  Consider the following examples:

              %.c       matches fred.c but not joe.c.Z
              dir/%.c   matches dir/fred.c but not dd/fred.c
              fred/%    matches fred/joe.c but not f/joe.c
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       In each case the part of the target name that matched  the  %  sign  is
       retained and is substituted for any % signs in the prerequisite list of
       the %-meta rule when the rule is selected during  inference  and  dmake
       constructs the new dependency.

       Please  note,  that  only  the first, non-indirect, prerequisite of the
       list is used for the inference mechanism. If more than one non-indirect
       prerequisite  is  given  a warning is issued and all but the first non-
       indirect prerequisites are ignored. See  below  for  a  description  of
       indirect prerequisites.

       As an example the following %-meta rules describe the following:

              %.c : %.y ; recipe...

       describes  how  to  make  any file ending in .c if a corresponding file
       ending in .y can be found.

              foo%.o : fee%.k ; recipe...

       is used to describe how to make fooxxxx.o from feexxxx.k.

              %.a :; recipe...

       describes how to make a file whose suffix is .a without  inferring  any
       prerequisites.

              %.c : %.y 'yaccsrc/%.y' ; recipe...

       matches  the  corresponding  .y  file  as prerequisite and additionally
       another .y file in the yaccsrc subdirectory as  indirect  prerequisite.
       Another interesting example is:

              % : RCS/%,v ; co $<

       which  describes  how  to  take  any target and check it out of the RCS
       directory if the corresponding file exists in the RCS  directory.   The
       equivalent SCCS rule would be:

              % : s.% ; get $<


       The  previous RCS example defines an infinite rule, because it says how
       to make anything from RCS/%,v, and anything also includes RCS/fred.c,v.
       To  limit the size of the graph that results from such rules dmake uses
       the macro variable PREP (stands for  %  repetition).   By  default  the
       value of this variable is 0, which says that no repetitions of a %-rule
       are to be generated.  If it is set to something greater  than  0,  then
       that  many  repetitions  of any infinite %-rule are allowed.  If in the
       above example PREP was set to 1, then dmake would generate  the  depen-
       dency graph:

              % --> RCS/%,v --> RCS/RCS/%,v,v

       Where  each  link  is assigned the same recipe as the first link.  PREP
       should be used only in special cases, since it may result  in  a  large
       increase in the number of possible prerequisites tested.  dmake further
       assumes that any target that has no suffix can be made from a prerequi-
       site that has at least one suffix.

       dmake  supports  dynamic  prerequisite  generation for prerequisites of
       %-meta rules.  This is best illustrated by an example.   The  RCS  rule
       shown  above can infer how to check out a file from a corresponding RCS
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       information.    That   is,  the  above  rule  can  infer  how  to  find
       RCS/fred.c,v from the target fred.c,  but  cannot  infer  how  to  find
       srcdir/RCS/fred.c,v  from  srcdir/fred.c  because  the  above rule will
       cause dmake to look  for  RCS/srcdir/fred.c,v;  which  does  not  exist
       (assume that srcdir has its own RCS directory as is the common case).

       A  more  versatile  formulation  of the above RCS check out rule is the
       following:

              % :  $$(@:d)RCS/$$(@:f),v : co $@

       This rule uses the dynamic macro $@ to specify the prerequisite to  try
       to  infer.   During  inference  of this rule the macro $@ is set to the
       value of the target of the %-meta rule and the appropriate prerequisite
       is generated by extracting the directory portion of the target name (if
       any), appending the string RCS/ to it, and appending  the  target  file
       name with a trailing ,v attached to the previous result.

       dmake  can  also  infer indirect prerequisites.  An inferred target can
       have a list of prerequisites added that will not show up in  the  value
       of  $<  but will show up in the value of $? and $&.  Indirect prerequi-
       sites are specified in an inference rule by  quoting  the  prerequisite
       with single quotes.  For example, if you had the explicit dependency:

              fred.o : fred.c ; rule to make fred.o
              fred.o : local.h

       then this can be inferred for fred.o from the following inference rule:

              %.o : %.c 'local.h' ; makes a .o from a .c

       You may infer indirect prerequisites that are a function of  the  value
       of '%' in the current rule.  The meta-rule:

              %.o : %.c '$(INC)/%.h' ; rule to make a .o from a .c

       infers  an  indirect prerequisite found in the INC directory whose name
       is the same as the expansion  of  $(INC),  and  the  prerequisite  name
       depends  on  the  base name of the current target.  The set of indirect
       prerequisites is attached to the meta rule in which they are  specified
       and  are inferred only if the rule is used to infer a recipe for a tar-
       get.  They do not play an active role in driving  the  inference  algo-
       rithm.  The construct:

              %.o :| %.c %.f 'local.h'; recipe

       is equivalent to:

              %.o : %.c 'local.h' ; recipe
              %.o : %.f 'local.h' ; recipe


       If  any of the attributes .EPILOG, .IGNORE, .LIBRARY, .NOSTATE, .PHONY,
       .PRECIOUS, .PROLOG, .SETDIR, .SILENT, .SWAP, .USESHELL and .WINPATH are
       given  for  a  %-rule  then  when that rule is bound to a target as the
       result of an inference, the target's set of attributes is augmented  by
       the  attributes  from  the  above  set  that are specified in the bound
       %-rule.  Other attributes specified for %-meta rules are not  inherited
       by  the target.  The .SETDIR attribute is treated in a special way.  If
       the target already had a .SETDIR attribute set then  dmake  changes  to
       that directory prior to performing the inference.  During inference any
       .SETDIR attributes for the  inferred  prerequisite  are  honored.   The
       directories  must  exist for a %-meta rule to be selected as a possible
       inference path.  If the directories do not exist no  error  message  is



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       issued,  instead  the  corresponding  path  in  the  inference graph is
       rejected.

       dmake bases all of its inferences on the  inference  graph  constructed
       from  the %-rules defined in the makefile.  It knows exactly which tar-
       gets can be made from which prerequisites  by  making  queries  on  the
       inference graph.

       For  a %-meta rule to be inferred as the rule whose recipe will be used
       to make a target, the target's name must match  the  %-target  pattern,
       and  any inferred %-prerequisite must already exist or have an explicit
       recipe so that the prerequisite can be made.  Without  transitive  clo-
       sure  on the inference graph the above rule describes precisely when an
       inference match  terminates  the  search.   If  transitive  closure  is
       enabled  (the  usual case), and a prerequisite does not exist or cannot
       be made, then dmake invokes the inference algorithm recursively on  the
       prerequisite  to see if there is some way the prerequisite can be manu-
       factured.  For, if the prerequisite can be made then the current target
       can  also be made using the current %-meta rule.  This means that there
       is no longer a need to give a rule for making a .o from  a  .y  if  you
       have already given a rule for making a .o from a .c and a .c from a .y.
       In such cases dmake can infer how to make the .o from the  .y  via  the
       intermediary .c and will remove the .c when the .o is made.  Transitive
       closure can be disabled by giving the -T switch on the command line.

       A word of caution.  dmake bases its transitive closure  on  the  %-meta
       rule  targets.   When  it  performs transitive closure it infers how to
       make a target from a prerequisite by performing a pattern match  as  if
       the potential prerequisite were a new target.  The set of rules:

              %.o : %.c ; rule for making .o from .c
              %.c : %.y ; rule for making .c from .y
              % : RCS/%,v ; check out of RCS file

       will,  by  performing  transitive  closure, allow dmake to infer how to
       make a .o from a .y using a  .c  as  an  intermediate  temporary  file.
       Additionally  it  will  be  able  to infer how to make a .y from an RCS
       file, as long as that RCS file is in the RCS directory and has  a  name
       which  ends in .y,v.  The transitivity computation is performed dynami-
       cally for each target that does not have a recipe.  This has  potential
       to  be  costly  if  the  %-meta rules are not carefully specified.  The
       .NOINFER attribute is used to mark a %-meta node as being a final  tar-
       get  during  inference.   Any  node with this attribute set will not be
       used for subsequent inferences.  As an  example  the  node  RCS/%,v  is
       marked  as  a  final  node  since we know that if the RCS file does not
       exist there likely is no other way  to  make  it.   Thus  the  standard
       startup makefile contains an entry similar to:
              .NOINFER : RCS/%,v
       Thereby indicating that the RCS file is the end of the inference chain.
       Whenever the inference algorithm determines that a target can  be  made
       from  more  than  one prerequisite and the inference chains for the two
       methods are the same length the  algorithm  reports  an  ambiguity  and
       prints the ambiguous inference chains.

       dmake tries to remove intermediate files resulting from transitive clo-
       sure if the file is not marked as being PRECIOUS, or the  -u  flag  was
       not given on the command line, and if the inferred intermediate did not
       previously exist.  Intermediate targets that  existed  prior  to  being
       made  are  never  removed.  This is in keeping with the philosophy that
       dmake should never remove things from the file system that it  did  not
       add.   If  the  special target .REMOVE is defined and has a recipe then
       dmake constructs a list of the intermediate files  to  be  removed  and
       makes  them  prerequisites  of  .REMOVE.  It then makes .REMOVE thereby
       removing the prerequisites if the recipe of .REMOVE says to.  Typically



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       .REMOVE is defined in the startup file as:

              .REMOVE :; $(RM) $<

AUGMAKE META RULES
       As  a  subclass  of  the meta targets that is actually mapped to %-meta
       rules dmake understands several SYSV AUGMAKE  targets  transformations.
       This  .<suffix>  special target construct transforms into the following
       %-meta rules:

              .suff :; recipe

       gets mapped into:

              % : %.suff; recipe


       dmake also supports the old format special target .<suffix>.<suffix> by
       identifying  any rules of this form and mapping them to the appropriate
       %-rule.  So for example if an old makefile contains the construct:

              .c.o :; cc -c $< -o $@

       dmake maps this into the following %-rule:

              %.o : %.c; cc -c $< -o $@

       The following SYSV  AUGMAKE  special  targets  transformation  must  be
       enabled  by providing the -A flag on the command line or by setting the
       value of AUGMAKE to non-NULL.  The construct

              .c~.o :; recipe

       gets mapped into:

              %.o : s.%.c ; recipe

       In general, a special target of the form .<str>~  is  replaced  by  the
       %-rule  construct  s.%.<str>,  thereby providing support for the syntax
       used by SYSV AUGMAKE for providing SCCS support.  When  enabled,  these
       mappings  allow processing of existing SYSV makefiles without modifica-
       tions.

MAKING TARGETS
       In order to update a target dmake must execute a recipe.  When a recipe
       needs  to  be  executed  it is first expanded so that any macros in the
       recipe text are expanded, and it is then either  executed  directly  or
       passed  to  a shell.  dmake supports two types of recipes.  The regular
       recipes and group recipes.

       When a regular recipe is invoked dmake executes each line of the recipe
       separately  using  a  new copy of a shell if a shell is required.  Thus
       effects of commands do not generally persist across recipe lines  (e.g.
       cd  requests  in  a  recipe  line  do not carry over to the next recipe
       line).  This is true even in environments such as  MSDOS,  where  dmake
       internally  sets the current working director to match the directory it
       was in before the command was executed.

       The decision on whether a shell is required to  execute  a  command  is
       based  on  the value of the macro SHELLMETAS or on the specification of
       '+' or .USESHELL for the current recipe or target respectively.  If any
       character  in  the  value of SHELLMETAS is found in the expanded recipe
       text-line or the use of a shell is  requested  explicitly  via  '+'  or
       .USESHELL  then  the  command  is executed using a shell, otherwise the



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       command is executed directly.  The shell that is used for execution  is
       given  by  the  value of the macro SHELL.  The flags that are passed to
       the shell are given by the value of SHELLFLAGS.  Thus dmake  constructs
       the command line:

       $(SHELL) $(SHELLFLAGS) $(expanded_recipe_command)

       If  the  $(SHELLCMDQUOTE) macro is set its value is inserted before and
       after the $(expanded_recipe_command) string.

       Normally dmake writes the command line that it is about  to  invoke  to
       standard output.  If the .SILENT attribute is set for the target or for
       the recipe line (via @), then the recipe line is not echoed.

       Group recipe processing is similar to that of regular  recipes,  except
       that  a shell is always invoked.  The shell that is invoked is given by
       the value of the macro GROUPSHELL, and its flags  are  taken  from  the
       value  of  the macro GROUPFLAGS.  If a target has the .PROLOG attribute
       set then dmake prepends to the shell script the recipe associated  with
       the special target .GROUPPROLOG, and if the attribute .EPILOG is set as
       well, then the recipe associated with the special  target  .GROUPEPILOG
       is  appended  to  the script file.  This facility can be used to always
       prepend a common header and common trailer  to  group  recipes.   Group
       recipes  are  echoed to standard output just like standard recipes, but
       are enclosed by lines beginning with [ and ].

       The recipe flags [+,-,%,@] are recognized at the start of a recipe line
       even if they appear in a macro.  For example:

              SH = +
              all:
              $(SH)echo hi

       is completely equivalent to writing

              SH = +
              all:
              +echo hi


       The  last  step  performed by dmake prior to running a recipe is to set
       the macro CMNDNAME to the name of the command to execute (determined by
       finding  the  first  white-space ending token in the command line).  It
       then sets the macro CMNDARGS to be the remainder of  the  line.   dmake
       then expands the macro COMMAND which by default is set to

              COMMAND = $(CMNDNAME) $(CMNDARGS)

       The  result  of  this  final expansion is the command that will be exe-
       cuted.  The reason for this expansion  is  to  allow  for  a  different
       interface to the argument passing facilities (esp. under DOS) than that
       provided by dmake.  You can for example define COMMAND to be

              COMMAND = $(CMNDNAME) @$(mktmp $(CMNDARGS))

       which dumps the arguments into a temporary file and runs the command

              $(CMNDNAME) @/tmp/ASAD23043

       which has a much shorter argument list.  It is now up to the command to
       use the supplied argument as the source for all other arguments.  As an
       optimization, if COMMAND is not defined  dmake  does  not  perform  the
       above  expansion.   On  systems, such as UNIX, that handle long command
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MAKING LIBRARIES
       Libraries are easy to maintain using dmake.  A library is a  file  con-
       taining  a collection of object files.  Thus to make a library you sim-
       ply specify it as a target with the .LIBRARY attribute set and  specify
       its list of prerequisites.  The prerequisites should be the object mem-
       bers that are to go into the library.  When  dmake  makes  the  library
       target  it uses the .LIBRARY attribute to pass to the prerequisites the
       .LIBMEMBER attribute and the name of the  library.   This  enables  the
       file  binding  mechanism  to  look  for the member in the library if an
       appropriate object file  cannot  be  found.   dmake  now  supports  Elf
       libraries on systems that support Elf and hence supports, on those sys-
       tems, long member file names.  A small example best illustrates this.

              mylib.a .LIBRARY : mem1.o mem2.o mem3.o
              rules for making library...
              # remember to remove .o's when lib is made

              # equivalent to:  '%.o : %.c ; ...'
              .c.o :; rules for making .o from .c say

       dmake will use the .c.o rule for making the library members  if  appro-
       priate  .c  files  can be found using the search rules.  NOTE:  this is
       not specific in any way to C programs, they are simply used as an exam-
       ple.

       dmake  tries  to  handle the old library construct format in a sensible
       way.  The construct lib(member.o) is separated and the lib  portion  is
       declared  as  a  library  target.   The  new target is defined with the
       .LIBRARY attribute set and the member.o portion  of  the  construct  is
       declared  as  a  prerequisite  of  the  lib  target.   If the construct
       lib(member.o) appears as a prerequisite of a target  in  the  makefile,
       that  target  has the new name of the lib assigned as its prerequisite.
       Thus the following example:

              a.out : ml.a(a.o) ml.a(b.o); $(CC) -o $@  $<

              .c.o :; $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@  $<
              %.a:
                     ar rv $@ $?
                     ranlib $@
                     rm -rf $?

       constructs the following dependency graph.

              a.out : ml.a; $(CC) -o $@  $<
              ml.a .LIBRARY : a.o b.o

              %.o : %.c ; $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@  $<
              %.a :
                     ar rv $@ $?
                     ranlib $@
                     rm -rf $?

       and making a.out then works as expected.

       The same thing happens for any target of the form lib((entry)).   These
       targets  have  an  additional  feature in that the entry target has the
       .SYMBOL attribute set automatically.

       NOTE:  If the notion of entry points is supported by the archive and by
       dmake  (currently  not the case) then dmake will search the archive for
       the entry point and return not only the modification time of the member
       which  defines  the  entry  but also the name of the member file.  This
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       file.  Once bound to an archive member the .SYMBOL attribute is removed
       from the target.  This feature is presently disabled as there is little
       standardization  among archive formats, and we have yet to find a make-
       file utilizing this feature (possibly due to the fact that it is  unim-
       plemented in most versions of UNIX Make).

       Finally, when dmake looks for a library member it must first locate the
       library file.  It does so by first looking for the library relative  to
       the  current directory and if it is not found it then looks relative to
       the current value of $(TMD).  This allows commonly used libraries to be
       kept near the root of a source tree and to be easily found by dmake.

KEEP STATE
       dmake  supports  the  keeping  of state information for targets that it
       makes whenever the macro .KEEP_STATE is assigned a value.  The value of
       the  macro  should  be  the  name of a state file that will contain the
       state information.  If state keeping is enabled then each  target  that
       does  not  poses the .NOSTATE attribute will have a record written into
       the state file indicating the target's name, the current directory, the
       command  used to update the target, and which, if any, :: rule is being
       used.  When you make this target again if any of this information  does
       not match the previous settings and the target is not out dated it will
       still be re-made.  The assumption is that one of the  conditions  above
       has  changed and that we wish to remake the target.  For example, state
       keeping is used in the maintenance of dmake to test  compile  different
       versions  of  the  source using different compilers.  Changing the com-
       piler causes the compilation flags to be modified and hence all sources
       to be recompiled.

       The  state  file is an ascii file and is portable, however it is not in
       human readable form as the entries represent hash  keys  of  the  above
       information.

       The Sun Microsystem's Make construct

              .KEEP_STATE :

       is  recognized and is mapped to .KEEP_STATE:=_state.mk.  The dmake ver-
       sion of state keeping does not include  scanning  C  source  files  for
       dependencies  like Sun Make.  This is specific to C programs and it was
       felt that it does not belong in make.  dmake instead provides the tool,
       cdepend,  to  scan C source files and to produce depedency information.
       Users are free to modify cdepend to  produce  other  dependency  files.
       (NOTE:  cdepend  does  not come with the distribution at this time, but
       will be available in a patch in the near future)

MULTI PROCESSING
       If the architecture supports it then dmake is capable of making a  tar-
       get's  prerequisites  in parallel.  dmake will make as much in parallel
       as it can and use a number of child processes up to the maximum  speci-
       fied  by  MAXPROCESS  or  by  the value supplied to the -P command line
       flag.  A parallel make is enabled by setting the  value  of  MAXPROCESS
       (either  directly  or  via  -P  option) to a value which is > 1.  dmake
       guarantees that all dependencies as specified in the makefile are  hon-
       ored.   A  target  will not be made until all of its prerequisites have
       been made.  Note that when you specify -P 4 then four  child  processes
       are  run  concurrently but dmake actually displays the fifth command it
       will run immediately upon a child process becomming free.  This  is  an
       artifact of the method used to traverse the dependency graph and cannot
       be removed.  If a parallel make is being performed then  the  following
       restrictions on parallelism are enforced.

              1.     Individual  recipe  lines  in a non-group recipe are per-
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                     specified  within  the  makefile and in parallel with the
                     recipes of other targets.

              2.     If a target contains multiple recipe definitions (cf.  ::
                     rules) then these are performed sequentially in the order
                     in which the :: rules are specified within  the  makefile
                     and in parallel with the recipes of other targets.

              3.     If  a  target  rule  contains  the `!' modifier, then the
                     recipe is performed sequentially for the list of outdated
                     prerequisites  and  in parallel with the recipes of other
                     targets.

              4.     If a target has the .SEQUENTIAL attribute set then all of
                     its  prerequisites  are made sequentially relative to one
                     another (as if MAXPROCESS=1), but in parallel with  other
                     targets in the makefile.

       Note:   If  you specify a parallel make then the order of target update
       and the order in which the associated recipes are invoked will not cor-
       respond to that displayed by the -n flag.

CONDITIONALS
       dmake  supports  a  makefile construct called a conditional.  It allows
       the user to conditionally select portions of makefile  text  for  input
       processing  and  to  discard  other  portions.  This becomes useful for
       writing makefiles that are intended to function for more than one  tar-
       get  host  and environment.  The conditional expression is specified as
       follows:

              .IF  expression
                 ... if text ...
              .ELIF  expression
                 ... if text ...
              .ELSE
                 ... else text ...
              .END

       The .ELSE and .ELIF portions are optional, and the conditionals may  be
       nested  (ie.   the  text may contain another conditional).  .IF, .ELSE,
       and .END may appear anywhere in the makefile, but a single  conditional
       expression may not span multiple makefiles.

       expression can be one of the following forms:

       String evaluation
       <text> | <text> == <text> | <text> != <text>

       Numeric evaluation
       <text> <= <text> | <text> >= <text>

       Boolean evaluation
       ( <text> ) | <text> || <text> | <text> && <text>

       where  text  is either text or a macro expression.  In any case, before
       the comparison is made, the expression is expanded.  The text  portions
       are then selected and compared.  In the case of the numeric comparisons
       enclosing quotes are removed after expanding the  expressions  and  the
       leading  numerical  parts  are  converted  to  an integer number. If no
       numerical part is found this results to 0 (zero). The string "12ab" for
       example  evaluates to the number 12.  Expressions can be nested with ()
       and the use of || or &&.  White space at the start and end of the  text
       portion  is  discarded  before the comparison.  This means that a macro
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       for  the  purpose  of the comparison.  In the first case the expression
       evaluates TRUE if the text is not NULL otherwise  it  evaluates  FALSE.
       The  remaining two cases both evaluate the expression on the basis of a
       string comparison.  If a macro expression needs to be equated to a NULL
       string  then compare it to the value of the macro $(NULL).  You can use
       the $(shell ...) macro to construct more complex test expressions.

EXAMPLES
              # A simple example showing how to use make
              #
              prgm : a.o b.o
                   cc a.o b.o -o prgm
              a.o : a.c g.h
                   cc a.c -o $@
              b.o : b.c g.h
                   cc b.c -o $@

       In the previous example prgm is remade only if a.o and/or b.o is out of
       date  with respect to prgm.  These dependencies can be stated more con-
       cisely by using the inference rules defined  in  the  standard  startup
       file.   The default rule for making .o's from .c's looks something like
       this:

       %.o : %.c; cc -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<

       Since there exists a rule (defined in the startup file) for making .o's
       from .c's dmake will use that rule for manufacturing a .o from a .c and
       we can specify our dependencies more concisely.

              prgm : a.o b.o
                   cc -o prgm $<
              a.o b.o : g.h

       A more general way to say the above  using  the  new  macro  expansions
       would be:

              SRC = a b
              OBJ = {$(SRC)}.o

              prgm : $(OBJ)
                   cc -o $@ $<

              $(OBJ) : g.h

       If  we want to keep the objects in a separate directory, called objdir,
       then we would write something like this.

              SRC = a b
              OBJ = {$(SRC)}.o

              prgm : $(OBJ)
                   cc $< -o $@

              $(OBJ) : g.h
              %.o : %.c
                   $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $(@:f) $<
                   mv $(@:f) objdir

              .SOURCE.o : objdir   # tell dmake to look here for .o's

       An example of building library members would go  something  like  this:
       (NOTE:  The same rules as above will be used to produce .o's from .c's)

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              LIB= lib
              LIBm= { $(SRC) }.o

              prgm: $(LIB)
                   cc -o $@ $(LIB)

              $(LIB) .LIBRARY : $(LIBm)
                   ar rv $@ $<
                   rm $<

       Finally, suppose that each of the source files in the previous  example
       had  the  `:'  character in their target name.  Then we would write the
       above example as:

              SRC= f:a f:b
              LIB= lib
              LIBm= "{ $(SRC) }.o"      # put quotes around each token

              prgm: $(LIB)
                   cc -o $@ $(LIB)

              $(LIB) .LIBRARY : $(LIBm)
                   ar rv $@ $<
                   rm $<

COMPATIBILITY
       There are two notable differences between dmake and the  standard  ver-
       sion of BSD UNIX 4.2/4.3 Make.

              1. BSD  UNIX  4.2/4.3 Make supports wild card filename expansion
                 for prerequisite names.  Thus if a  directory  contains  a.h,
                 b.h and c.h, then a line like

                 target: *.h

                 will  cause  UNIX  make to expand the *.h into "a.h b.h c.h".
                 dmake does not support this type of filename expansion.

              2. Unlike UNIX make, touching a library member causes  dmake  to
                 search  the  library  for  the  member name and to update the
                 library time stamp.  This is only  implemented  in  the  UNIX
                 version.   MSDOS  and  other versions may not have librarians
                 that keep file time stamps, as a  result  dmake  touches  the
                 library file itself, and prints a warning.

       dmake  is  not  compatible  with  GNU  Make.  In particular it does not
       understand GNU Make's macro expansions that query the file system.

       dmake is fully compatible with SYSV AUGMAKE, and supports the following
       AUGMAKE features:

              1. GNU  Make  style  include,  and  if/else/endif directives are
                 allowed in non-group recipes.  Thus, the word include appear-
                 ing at the start of a line that is not part of a gruop recipe
                 will be mapped to the ".INCLUDE" directive that  damke  uses.
                 Similarly,  the  words  ifeq,ifneq,elif,else,  and  endif are
                 mapped to their corresponding dmake equivalents.

              2. The macro modifier expression $(macro:str=sub) is  understood
                 and  is equivalent to the expression $(macro:s/str/sub), with
                 the restriction that str must  match  the  following  regular
                 expression:

                 str[ |\t][ |\t]*



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                 (ie.  str  only  matches at the end of a token where str is a
                 suffix and is terminated by a space, a tab, or end  of  line)
                 Normally  sub is expanded before the substitution is made, if
                 you specify -A on the command line then sub is not  expanded.

              3. The  macro  % is defined to be $@ (ie. $% expands to the same
                 value as $@).

              4. The AUGMAKE notion of libraries is handled correctly.

              5. Directories are always made if you specify -A.  This is  con-
                 sistent with other UNIX versions of Make.

              6. Makefiles  that  utilize  virtual  targets to force making of
                 other targets work as expected if AUGMAKE special target han-
                 dling is enabled.  For example:

                 FRC:
                 myprog.o : myprog.c $(FRC) ; ...

                 Works as expected if you issue the command

                 'dmake -A FRC=FRC'

                 but  fails  with a 'don't know how to make FRC' error message
                 if you do not specify AUGMAKE special target handling via the
                 -A flag (or by setting AUGMAKE:=yes internally).

LIMITS
       In  some  environments  the length of an argument string is restricted.
       (e.g. MSDOS command line arguments cannot be longer than 128  bytes  if
       you  are  using  the  standard  command.com command interpreter as your
       shell, dmake text diversions may help in these situations.)

PORTABILITY
       To write makefiles that can be moved from one  environment  to  another
       requires some forethought.  In particular you must define as macros all
       those things that may be different in the new environment.   dmake  has
       two  facilities that help to support writing portable makefiles, recur-
       sive macros and conditional expressions.  The recursive  macros,  allow
       one  to define environment configurations that allow different environ-
       ments for similar types of operating systems.   For  example  the  same
       make script can be used for SYSV and BSD but with different macro defi-
       nitions.

       To write a makefile that is portable between UNIX  and  MSDOS  requires
       both  features  since  in  almost all cases you will need to define new
       recipes for making targets.  The recipes will probably be quite differ-
       ent  since the capabilities of the tools on each machine are different.
       Different macros will be needed to help handle the smaller  differences
       in the two environments.

FILES
       Makefile,  makefile,  startup.mk  (use  dmake  -V to tell you where the
       startup file is)

SEE ALSO
       sh(1), csh(1), touch(1), f77(1), pc(1), cc(1)
       S.I. Feldman  Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs

AUTHOR
       Dennis Vadura, dvadura@wticorp.com
       Many thanks to Carl Seger for his helpful suggestions,  and  to  Trevor
       John Thompson for his many excellent ideas and informative bug reports.



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       Many thanks also go to those on the NET  that  have  helped  in  making
       dmake one of the best Make tools available.

BUGS
       Some  system  commands  return non-zero status inappropriately.  Use -i
       (`-' within the makefile) to overcome the difficulty.

       Some systems do not have easily accessible time stamps for library mem-
       bers  (MSDOS,  AMIGA,  etc)  for these dmake uses the time stamp of the
       library instead and prints a warning the first time it does  so.   This
       is  almost  always  ok,  except when multiple makefiles update a single
       library file.  In these instances it is possible to miss an  update  if
       one is not careful.

       This man page is way too long.

WARNINGS
       Rules supported by make(1) may not work if transitive closure is turned
       off (-T, .NOINFER).

       PWD from csh/ksh will cause problems if a cd operation is performed and
       -e or -E option is used.

       Using  internal  macros  such  as COMMAND, may wreak havoc if you don't
       understand their functionality.










































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